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The Girl with All the Gifts (Trailer)
Set in a future where zombies have overrun the Earth, The Girl with All the Gifts is about a young second generation zombie – she retains her hunger for human flesh but is otherwise normal. Based on a...
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What Independence Day Did Right
Independence Day is a mediocre film at best. But Lessons from the Screenplay points out that its script did get a number of things right. It kept the bad guys mysterious for a long time, and made an...
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Rams
Industrial designer Dieter Rams helped elevate everyday objects with his functionalist approach. Gary Hustwit (Objectified, Helvetica, Urbanized) is currently raising funds to finish a documentary...
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The Importance of Off-screen Sound
(PG-13: Language) “Sounds shape what you see and what you think you see.” In film, sound has a unique variant: the ones made by unseen objects or beings. RocketJump Film School points out the various...
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How Giants Are Filmed
Movies and TV shows use visual effects and CGI to make characters with vastly different sizes appear to inhabit the same space. But Frame By Frame explains that there are also practical effects and...
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The Evolution of Matthew McConaughey
Burger Fiction’s visual filmography of Matthew McConaughey. He’s gone through dramatically different niches and characters throughout his career, despite the fact that he’s performed almost all of them...
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Brilliant Moments of Action
CineFix breaks down five sublime examples of movie action sequences, from epic set pieces to one on one fights. Because battles are cool, but battles that we understand and care about are way cooler....
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The 9th Life of Louis Drax (Trailer)
Nine-year-old Louis Drax experiences freak accidents once a year. The last one sees him fall off a cliff, causing him to fall into a coma. The doctor treating him tries to make sense of this unlucky...
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Being a Special Makeup Effects Artist
“Sometimes we’re kinda like the bartenders of a film.” KNB EFX co-founder Howard Berger (The Chronicles of Narnia, The Walking Dead, Breaking Bad) explains the basics of making a prosthetic mask before...
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Bleed for This (Trailer)
(PG-13) Miles Teller stars as boxer Vinny Paz. The Pazmanian Devil was at the height of his career when he broke his neck in a car accident. But the rest of the story plays out like Million Dollar Baby...
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Voyage of Time (Trailer)
Terence Malick’s long awaited documentary about the birth and death of the universe. Voyage of Time will have two versions: a 40-minute cut narrated by Brad Pitt, and a feature length – and undoubtedly...
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The Revenant: Feral Tranquility
(SPOILERS) Channel Criswell masterfully explains how cinematographer Emmanuel “Chivo” Lubezki used the camera to reinforce The Revenant‘s conflicts – that of man against nature, and survival against...
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Imperium (Trailer)
Daniel Radcliffe stars as former FBI agent Michael German, who specialized in counter-terrorist operations. In 1992, in the aftermath of the Rodney King incident, German infiltrated a white supremacist...
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How Ghostbusters Became Ghostbusters
Lessons from the Screenplay breaks down the two main purposes of a screenplay to examine how, despite being “unremarkable”, the original Ghostbusters script gave the cast and crew a solid foundation...
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How Civil War Should’ve Ended
How It Should Have Ended goes to war with plot holes as they tear apart Captain America: Civil War, a movie where the villain is not a terrorist or Iron Man’s impeccable timing, but Vision and...
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Loving (Trailer)
From writer and director Jeff Nichols (Mud, Take Shelter, Midnight Special) comes a movie about Richard and Mildred Loving, a mixed race couple whose landmark case abolished laws against interracial...
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A Monster Calls (Trailer)
“It’s okay that you’re angry. I’m angry too. If you need to break things, by god you break them.” A monster appears before a boy who’s dealing with his mother’s terminal illness. An adaptation of...
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Ghostbusters 2 Honest Trailer
“If you loved the first Ghostbusters movie, then you should definitely watch that one instead.” Screen Junkies takes on the The Hangover 2 of of the 80’s. Ghostbusters 2 was kinda funny, but it uses...
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La La Land (Teaser)
Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone play struggling artists trying to survive in Los Angeles in this musical by Whiplash writer and director Damien Chazelle. The song in the teaser is City of Stars, an...
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X-Men Apocalypse Weird Trailer
Trailer mutilator Aldo Jones is back at it with this awesome defilement of the X-Men: Apocalypse trailer. It’s filled with a ton of blink-and-you’ll-miss-it-gags, including a hilarious Mystique moment....
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