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War on Everyone (Teaser)
Link(PG-13) Alexander Skarsgård and Michael Peña play two corrupt cops in New Mexico who get off on blackmailing and framing each and every criminal they meet in this satirical comedy by John Michael...
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Color Psychology
LinkLilly Mtz-Seara goes through the basic colors to show how filmmakers use them to accentuate, project and imply specific emotions or concepts. Specifically, she shows how each color can be used in...
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Eight Days a Week (Teaser)
LinkDirector Ron Howard (Apollo 13, A Beautiful Mind) takes us back to the Fab Four’s brief but revolutionary takeover of rock and roll, and music in general. Featuring lots of never-before-seen...
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Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (Trailer)
LinkFormer army cop Jack Reacher returns to his old barracks to meet the new commanding officer. But when he gets there, the CO has been framed and he’s being accused of murder. Tom Cruise and Cobie...
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Creative Spark: Jennifer Yuh Nelson
Link“I think creativity is a byproduct of not trying so hard.” Director Jennifer Yuh Nelson (Kung Fu Panda 2 & 3) spoke with the Oscars about her style of filmmaking, making art in her free time to...
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Keeping Up with the Joneses (Trailer)
LinkA suburban couple’s life is turned upside down when they start nosing around their suspiciously perfect neighbors. Four sexy actors – Gal Gadot, Isla Fisher, Jon Hamm and Zach Galifianakis – star...
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The Girl with All the Gifts (Trailer)
LinkSet 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...
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What Independence Day Did Right
LinkIndependence 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...
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Rams
Price: $15+ | PledgeIndustrial designer Dieter Rams helped elevate everyday objects with his functionalist approach. Gary Hustwit (Objectified, Helvetica, Urbanized) is currently raising funds to...
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The Importance of Off-screen Sound
Link(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...
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How Giants Are Filmed
LinkMovies 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
LinkBurger 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...
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Brilliant Moments of Action
LinkCineFix 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...
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The 9th Life of Louis Drax (Trailer)
LinkNine-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...
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Being a Special Makeup Effects Artist
Link“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...
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Bleed for This (Trailer)
Link(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...
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Voyage of Time (Trailer)
LinkTerence 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...
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The Revenant: Feral Tranquility
Link(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...
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Imperium (Trailer)
LinkDaniel 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...
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How Ghostbusters Became Ghostbusters
LinkLessons 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...
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