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Keanu (Red Band Trailer)
(PG-13) Key and Peele move on from the small screen with the first of several movies they have in the pipeline. Two ordinary guys find themselves in a world of trouble as they infiltrate a gang to...
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10 Great Opening Shots
CineFix’s first episode for 2016 aptly lists its picks for the best movie opening scenes, including the mirrored shot of The Searchers, the slow-motion destruction in Apocalypse Now and the restrained...
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Actors Acting Opposite Themselves
Burger Fiction compiled some of the most popular instances in which actors played multiple characters in the same movie, such as Michael Keaton in Multiplicity and Lindsay Lohan in The Parent Trap. We...
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A Method to Scorsese’s Madness
(Flashing lights, Gore) Frame by Frame points out that Martin Scorsese’s movies are memorable and refreshing partly because he’s good at using two techniques that are conventionally at odds: neorealism...
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Composition in Storytelling
If film editing tells us a story using several shots, composition tells a story in one shot. Channel Criswell talks about the basic techniques of composition and how they keep us focused and...
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uNoGS for Netflix
The Unofficial Netflix Online Global Search (uNoGS) lets you look up the availability of shows and movies in Netflix’s different regions. You can limit its scope to certain regions and search by genre,...
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2016 Oscars VFX Nominees
Editor Vic Rincon put together this awesome roll call of the nominees for the 2016 Academy Awards for Best Visual Effects: Ex Machina, Mad Max: Fury Road, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, The Martian and...
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The Bronze (Trailer)
Melissa Rauch stars in this comedy about an obnoxious, washed up Olympic athlete who has to figure out how to move on in life after her return to “real life.” Also stars Gary Cole, Thomas Middleditch,...
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Kubo and the Two Strings (Trailer 2)
“When you grow stronger the world grows more dangerous.” Our latest look at Laika’s Japanese adventure shows both its dark and lighthearted sequences. Stars George Takei, Charlize Theron, Matthew...
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Inside the VFX: Jurassic World
ILM shares an effects breakdown reel from last summer’s popcorn blockbuster. By today’s standards, it’s a fairly typical, yet still impressive mix of CGI, rotoscoping, and matte work, but the way they...
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Zootropolis (Trailer 3)
The latest trailer for Disney’s animated flick expounds on the animal-filled storyline – as an unlikely of a con artist and a rookie cop set out on an adventure to solve mystery together. From the...
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Did You Know Movies: Spirited Away
The Film Theorists share interesting trivia about Studio Ghibli’s Spirited Away. Learn how Hayao Miyazaki decided to make it about a 10-year old girl, his favorite scenes in the movie, the origin of...
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Miles Ahead (Trailer)
Don Cheadle’s directorial debut is a biographical film based on Miles Davis, centered on an unreleased tape that was stolen from him. Apparently the movie takes on a free-form and branching approach in...
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10 Great Closing Shots
CineFix follows up its top 10 opening shots with its picks for the best movie endings, whether because they’re open to interpretation (or undeniably definitive), creative or just plain beautiful. Link...
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Green Room (Red Band Trailer)
(PG-13: Language) A struggling punk rock band accepts a gig at a neo-Nazi tavern. Their night goes from bad to worse when they stumble upon a murder at the bar. Naturally, the skinheads don’t want any...
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X-Men: Apocalypse (Teaser)
“Everything they’ve built will fall!” Olivia Munn’s Psylocke is fully revealed and the X-Men’s god-like villain wreaks havoc on a scale befitting a man who calls himself Apocalypse in the film’s Super...
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Capt. America: Civil War (Teaser)
The lines are drawn and the characters – well, most of them – have chosen their sides. Iron Man, War Machine, Black Widow, Vision and the Black Panther take on Cap, the Winter Soldier, the Falcon,...
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High-Rise (Trailer)
Based on J.G. Ballard’s classic novel, High-Rise explores a microcosm of society all living in a single tower, as a class war erupts across the floors, and those at the bottom of the building rise up...
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Batman v Superman (Trailer 4)
Everybody loves Clark Kent, Diana is like no other woman and Bruce Wayne is chaining combos like his video game counterpart in the final trailer for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. Go go Bat armor!...
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Did Tarantino Steal Reservoir Dogs?
(Gore) Frame By Frame summarizes one of the old criticisms against Quentin Tarantino: that he stole the story of Reservoir Dogs from Ringo Lam’s 1987 classic City on Fire. Then they argue that...
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