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Citizenfour (Teaser)
A documentary about former CIA and DIA employee Edward Snowden and the NSA scandal by award-winning journalist and filmmaker Laura Poitras. Laura is one of the first journalists to receive copies of...
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Silence of the Lambs: Who Wins?
Film critic Tony Zhou imparts a wealth of knowledge in this quick episode of Every Frame a Painting, as he points out how director Jonathan Demme differentiated the dominator from the dominated in The...
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10 Great Slow-Motion Scenes
(NSFW: Language, Gore) CineFix ranks its top 10 movie slow-motion sequences. While you’re bound to disagree with some of the entries, the rankings or both – no Inception! – it’s still an educational...
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Terrence Malick: Voice-over Artist
Terrence Malick often uses voice-overs in his movies, but it’s no mere idiosyncrasy. Scott Tobias and Kevin B. Lee show how Malick employs the technique to free his camera, emphasize his themes or help...
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And the Other Way is Wrong
For his latest exploration of the world’s greatest filmmakers, Tony Zhou takes a look at the precise visual style of David Fincher, the man behind such diverse and amazing films as Fight Club, Seven,...
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Greatest Movie Deaths
(Gore) The favorite movie death scenes of the 26 directors of The ABCs of Death 2, from the face-melting scene in Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark to Marion Cotillard’s hilariously awful...
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Avengers: Age of Ultron (Trailer 2)
The alternate debut trailer for Avengers: Age of Ultron starts out with a lighthearted scene about Thor’s hammer. Perhaps this was supposed to be the original trailer, but after it got leaked Marvel...
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Snowpiercer: Left or Right
(Spoilers) For Tony Zhou’s latest episode of Every Frame a Painting, he explores a simple, yet effective use of screen direction to help indicate the choices of its characters. If you’ve never seen...
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Superhero Movie Timeline
Comics Alliance made this neat chart that catalogs the announced lineup of superhero movies from Marvel/Disney, Warner Bros., Sony and Fox. 2016 and 2018 are crazy packed. We can’t wait for Black...
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Ex Machina (Trailer)
A programmer wins a prize to meet his company’s reclusive CEO. But he ends up becoming a pawn in his boss’ experiment with artificial intelligence. Written and directed by Alex Garland (28 Days Later,...
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HISHE: Avengers AoU Trailer
HAKUNA MATATA. Not content with poking fun at released movies, How It Should’ve Ended takes on the trailer for Avengers: Age of Ultron, wishing that the titular villain didn’t stop at quoting only...
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Furious 7 (Trailer)
The trailer for the latest installment in The Fast and the Furious series doesn’t go up to eleven – it starts at eleven. The movie ties into the events of Tokyo Drift and also stars Jason Statham and...
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Inception Retold by Mom
After rewriting The Matrix, Joe Nicolosi’s mother Wendy is back with her retelling of Inception. You may remember it as the movie about planting ideas, starring Matt Damon and a group of girls with...
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Chappie (Trailer)
From director Neill Blomkamp (District 9, Elysium) comes a drama about a robot child created specifically to learn, adapt and feel like a human being. Starring Dev Patel, Sharlto Copley, Sigourney...
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Hardcore: A POV Action Film
(NSFW: Language, Gore) Filmmaker Ilya Naishuller – the man behind his band Biting Elbows’ first-person action videos – made the first full-length action movie that’s shot entirely from the point of...
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The Gambler (Trailer)
(NSFW: Language) “If I give you this money and you don’t pay me back…” Mark Wahlberg, Michael Kenneth Williams and a thug lord John Goodman star in this remake of the eponymous 1974 film about a...
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Hobbit: Battle of 5 Armies (Trailer)
“You have but one question to answer: how shall this day end?” The Dwarves, the Wood-elves, the Men of the Lake, the Goblins and the Warg clash upon the Lonely Mountain in The Hobbit: The Battle of...
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Last Exit to Nowhere Stickers
The excellent fan-made movie merchandise shop Last Exit to Nowhere now sells stickers of some its popular designs. The initial release consists of four sets of four stickers each. Set four is going to...
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Iron Sky 2 (Teaser)
The sequel to the 2012 sci-fi comedy about Nazis on the Moon, Iron Sky The Coming Race ditches the final frontier for a hidden civilization underneath the Earth… where there are Nazis. And Nazi...
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Into the Woods (Trailer)
Disney’s star-studded Holiday movie, Into the Woods is an adaptation of the critically-acclaimed dark comedy musical about a couple who encounters various fairy tale characters in their quest to rid...
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