Nightcrawler 📹

The happiest of Mondays to you! Let’s get back up and running, shall we?

Today’s movie is Dan Gilroy’s thriller Nightcrawler (2013)—streaming on Netflix. Though it is the sixth film that Gilroy—brother of the late legend Tony Gilroy—wrote, it was his directorial debut, which is impressive considering it earned him critical acclaim, an Oscar nom for Best Original Screenplay, and very nearly got star Jake Gyllenhaal his second Oscar nomination. Yup, that’s right. One of our greatest living actors Jake Gyllenhaal only has *one* Oscar nomination.

Anyway… review below and here’s the trailer.

Nightcrawler is about perpetual hustler Lou Bloom (Gyllenhaal) and his endless pursuit for success. One night, after witnessing stringers—freelance video journalists—recording footage from a car accident he finds his new line of work. As he dives deeper into the L.A. underbelly of crime, he maybe becomes too involved in getting the story.

What I love about Nightcrawler is that it takes clear inspiration f…