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Toxicologist Rates Movies and TV Realism
Link From snake venom to bad foraging to intentional poisonings, characters in movies and TV shows are often exposed to toxins. Insider asked medical toxicologist Dr. Cyrus Rangan to evaluate scenes...
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Paleontologist Breaks Down Dinosaur Movies
Link It’s obvious to most of us that Hollywood has taken some artistic license in its portrayal of dinosaurs in movies. Paleontologist Mark Loewen sat down with Vanity Fair to explain some of the major...
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Making Characters Fly in TV and Movies
Link Flying through the air is one of the most common powers wielded by superheroes and supervillains. Insider takes a look at the history of flying characters in TV and movies, and how improvements in...
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Moonage Daydream (Trailer)
Link Filmmaker Brett Morgen (Cobain: Montage of Heck) directed this visual and auditory spectacle about the late, great David Bowie. Rather than present his life as a documentary, the film celebrates...
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Hell’s Club 3: The Rise of Darkness
Link Movie remixer Antonio Maria Da Silva is back with the third part of his epic Hell’s Club series. The feature-length “love letter to cinema” combines footage of such diverse films as Wayne’s World,...
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Can Digital Movies Really Look Like Old Movies?
Link David Fincher is known for his fastidious approach to filmmaking. He’s a staunch believer in digital technology and visual effects to bring his fiction to life. But when making a movie like Mank...
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The Greatest Beer Run Ever (Trailer)
Link Inspired by a true story, The Greatest Beer Run Ever follows a man who decides to support his friends fighting the war in Vietnam by delivering them real American beer. Zac Efron stars as the...
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Paper Planes Sung by the Movies
Link Thanks in large part to its interpolation of The Clash’s Straight to Hell, the track Paper Planes has one of the catchiest hooks ever. But M.I.A’s additions make it even better. The Unusual...
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Making Fake Money for Movies and TV
Link There are lots of scenes in movies and TV shows where they show enormous stacks of cash. But there’s a fine line between on-screen realism and illegal counterfeiting. Insider takes a look at how...
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Athena (Trailer)
Link After a soldier loses his youngest brother in an apparent police altercation, he returns home to help bring justice to the fallen. But things quickly escalate as the community wants revenge....
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The Fabelmans (Trailer)
Link Steven Spielberg’s latest is basically his own autobiography, as told through the eyes of a boy growing up in the 1950s who falls in love with the cinema and starts making his own home movies. The...
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Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story (Trailer)
Link American Crime Story’s Ryan Murphy and frequent collaborator Ian Brennan revisit the horrific crimes of Jeffrey Dahmer and the systemic failures that enabled him to murder 17 people over 13 years....
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Freezing Time in Movies
Link Ever since The Matrix came out, visual effects that play with time have become more common. Insider explains how effects artists have slowed down and frozen time on screen in movies like X-Men:...
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The Man Behind the Monster Masks
Link Having designed and worked on creatures in movies from Galaxy Quest to Avatar to Hellboy, artist Jordu Schell knows a thing or two about mask making. WIRED sat down with the professional artist...
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Horror Cinema: The Best Scary Movies of All Time
| Buy Every film fanatic needs Taschen’s Horror Cinema on their bookshelf. This 640-page book catalogs some of the most notable horror movies of all time, along with common themes, tropes, and...
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Enys Men (Trailer)
Link Writer/director Mark Jenkin’s gritty horror has the looks of a grainy old grindhouse film. It follows the tale of a wildlife volunteer working on a supposedly uninhabited island who descends into...
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Cocaine Bear (Trailer)
Link (PG-13: Language/Gore) Any movie with the tagline “On a rampage for blow and blood” can’t be all bad, right? This dark comedy is inspired by the insane true story of a drug runner whose plane...
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How Movies Make Fake Drugs
Link Drug usage is frequently depicted in movies and TV shows, but actors obviously aren’t really snorting coke or shooting up heroin. Insider spent some time with prop master Joel Barkow to learn...
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The Supercut
Link Béla Films’ montage starts out with a seemingly random array of classic movie and TV moments, but transitions around the 1-minute mark into a thrilling action sequence, painstakingly edited...
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Making Movie Natural Disasters
Link Movies and TV shows use a mix of practical, optical, and digital visual effects to simulate natural disasters. Insider compiled behind-the-scenes footage from eight movies where VFX pros brought...
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