The Black Dahlia

Brian DePalma’s new movie, based on James Ellroy’s novel and rich in period detail, weaves a fictionalized tale of obsession, love, corruption, greed and depravity around the brutal murder of a fledgling Hollywood starlet that shocked and fascinated the nation in 1947 and remains unsolved today. Two ex-pugilist cops, Lee Blanchard (Aaron Eckhart) and Bucky Bleichert (Josh Hartnett), are called to investigate the homicide. Scarlett Johansson and Hilary Swank co-star.