Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
LinkThe Royal Ocean Film Society tips its hat to how animated films depict food in this wonderful supercut. There’s Garden of Words‘ mouth-watering kitchen scenes, Wallace and Gromit’s simple toast,...
View Article1917: Behind the Scenes
LinkHow do you shoot an action film in a single shot, in real time? That was Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes’ (Skyfall, American Beauty) challenge for 1917, a WWI drama that takes audiences into the...
View ArticleRichard Jewell (Trailer)
LinkClint Eastwood directed this retelling of the tragic story of the security guard who went from being lauded as a hero to being treated as a terrorist after the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing...
View ArticleDestroying Wacker Drive
Link The area along Wacker Drive near State Street is one of Chicago’s most architecturally significant and iconic locales. Perhaps that’s why Hollywood loves to destroy it over and over again. The...
View ArticleMemory: The Origins of Alien
| Buy | Link Go inside the story of one of the greatest science fiction/horror movies of all time. Alexandre O. Philippe’s documentary delves into the origins of Ridley Scott’s tense, gory, and artful...
View ArticleJoywave: Obsession
https://amzn.to/2NRsKLw | Buy | Link Director Dimitri Basil’s music video for the Joywave track Obsession is both a tribute to and a loving parody of vintage movie title sequences, featuring an array...
View ArticleWonder Woman 1984 (Trailer)
Link Wonder Woman is back, and she’s headed to the mall. The sequel to one of DC’s better recent outings drops our hero into the decade of big hair and Rubik’s Cubes to save the world with her Lasso of...
View ArticleAntlers (Red Band Trailer)
Link (Gore) Produced by Guillermo del Toro, and directed by Scott Cooper (Black Mass), this creepy horror film follows the story of a gruesome death that at first appears to be an animal attack, but...
View ArticleTrope Talk: Kaiju
Link We love watching movies like Godzilla and Mothra and Ghidorah for their building-stomping monster action. But as Overly Sarcastic Productions points out, there’s way more depth to these films than...
View ArticleThe Best Movies: 2010 to 2019
Link (PG-13) Despite Hollywood’s unhealthy obsession with reboots, remakes, and sequels, there have been some pretty great movies in the past decade. Little White Lies‘ Luís Azevedo put together this...
View Article2010-2019 Movie Trailer Mashup
Link (PG-13: Language) Editor Sleepy Skunk recently bestowed us with his regular end-of-year movie trailer mashup. But since it’s the end of a decade, he decided to do one better, and put together this...
View ArticleA Decade of Movie Music (2010s)
Link Pianist Samuel Fu rings in the new decade by paying tribute to the past 10 years of movie music, performing a wonderful medley of 45 cinematic tracks from movies like The Avengers, Frozen, Pacific...
View ArticleLittle Horrors: Gremlins
Link Joe Dante’s 1984 Gremlins is a classic popcorn flick, packed with offbeat humor, gross-out gags, memorable monsters, and its share of charming moments. But In Praise of Shadows thinks it’s much...
View ArticleHollywood Went to the Moon First
Link More than five decades ago, NASA landed the first humans ever on the moon. But prior to the 1969 Apollo 11 mission, Hollywood took us there thanks to a heaping helping of imagination and movie...
View ArticleThe Set in the Sand
Link These days, when you want to shoot a film or TV series on location, green screens and CGI often replace real places. But you’ll still need a big space when you want to shoot with lots of extras....
View ArticleThe Death of Green Screen?
Link (PG-13: Language) Filming things against a green screen and then replacing that area with digital images has become the norm in visual effects shots. But with the dramatic improvements in...
View ArticleThe Very Excellent Mr. Dundee
Link Actor Paul Hogan portrays himself in this meta-movie about Hollywood’s insistence on relaunching the Crocodile Dundee franchise with a younger version of himself. We’re so happy that they decided...
View ArticleA History of Silence
Link Lois Weber is a name not known to many, but she was a pioneer of the cinema. She directed her first film in 1914, and owned her own movie studio. After directing more than 100 silent films, often...
View ArticleChris Hadfield Reviews Space Movies
Link We all know that science fiction takes its share of liberties with its depiction of what life is like in space. In this clip from Vanity Fair, astronaut Chris Hadfield shares his thoughts on what...
View ArticleAn Expert on Movie Plane Crashes
Link Plane crashes are a staple of action movies. But how realistic are the crashes depicted on screen? Insider sat down with Stephen Moss, a former investigator at the UK’s Air Accident Investigation...
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