Like Michael Mann‘s one-crazy-night-in-L.A. classic Collateral, thriller Animals (now streaming on Netflix) builds to a cinematic climax that simply wouldn’t work in any other city but Los Angeles. Writer/director/star Ben Affleck plays L.A. mayoral candidate Mark Kimball, kidnapped by criminals until he and his estranged wife, Abigail (Kerry Washington), hire Gillian Anderson’s ice-cool hostage negotiator…
