Hollywoodland - Available on DVD

“Hollywoodland” is an interesting mix of fact and fiction, providing several theories for why actor George Reeves died. Reeves (played effectively by Ben Afflick), typecast as the television character Superman, died from a gun shot wound to the head. The police investigation concluded suicide and perhaps Reeves was depressed that his career did not go beyond Superman. However, maybe he was murdered and that’s what the fictional character Louis Simo (Adrien Brody) investigates. “Hollywoodland” is certainly better than “The Black Dahlia,” another based-on-a-true-story movie.