4 Winners and Losers from Cannes 2017
Every year people pay great attention to what happens at Cannes. It’s the crown jewel of the global film market. Directors, actors, producers, and studios all descend upon the festival in the hopes of...
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Alien: Covenant – Return to Form or Complete Misfire?
The reviews for Alien: Covenant aren’t that hot. That said, before you decide not to see it, remember the reviews for Blade Runner (1982) were downright atrocious. When the film was first released you’d...
Why Another Writer’s Strike Would Have Been a Very Big Deal
The last time the Writers Guild of America went on strike the Hollywood machine suffered greatly. Shows like Heroes and Battlestar Galactica took massive dips in quality. Films such as Men in Black 3...
Why Silence of the Lambs Was So Good
As the director of over 60 projects, Jonathan Demme, who died of complications from esophageal cancer on April 26, 2017, was a creative force to be reckoned with. With films like Philadelphia, The Manchurian...
Why Did Fate of the Furious Beat Star Wars at the Box Office?
The Fast and Furious film franchise is one of the most bizarre moneymaking machines to occur in recent film history. Starting as a series of lowbrow, car exploitation films in the early 2000’s, it...
What Really Peeves the Pros
Listed below are five things that every creative professional hates to deal with. If you’re an up-and-coming creative, please don’t do any of the items listed below. Just don’t. Unreturned Emails, Texts, Phone Calls...
5 Kinds of Bad Movies that Will Make You a Better Filmmaker
It’s a fallacy that great filmmakers emerge fully formed, as if they emerge from some “great directors cave” knowing exactly what to do and how to do it. Consider a fine arts painter. Think...
Filmmaking 101: Building Suspense
In order to build suspense in film you have to plan, exercise control, and use the language of cinema to meet your ends. While it’s true much of the suspense in a scene happens...
Binge Nation: 7 Binge-Worthy Shows to Stream Now
The way television is consumed has radically changed over the last ten years. Now, the idea of serialized week-to-week storytelling is something alien or at the very least, passé, to most viewers. People want...
Ways Film Directors Use Color
Film is often said to be a director’s medium. They’re the person who has the most creative control and who makes all the key decisions. One of the often overlooked ways directors can make...
