Behold David Ehrlich’s Epic Supercut of 2019’s Best Films
As the end of the year draws near, the world is blanketed in Best Of lists. The best 10 films of the year. The best 20 films of the year. The best albums, the best TV shows, the best this and the best that. You can hardly do better than Slate‘s movie critic Dana Stevens’ year-end list, but if you’re more of a buffet than a sit-down meal kind of person, a simple Google search for the “Best Of”...
Editor Gordon Rempel on the Music of Editing
Gordon Rempel sees parallels between the approach he takes editing film and television and his love of making music. With more than two decades of experience in both fields, he would know.
“I actually have a musical background. I’ve been playing in bands continuously since I was a teenager. Music takes a lot of the same parts of your brain as editing does: it’s all rhythm, tempo, and pacing. And finding that accent point. Putting a movie or TV show together is not all that dissimilar to putting together a song or piece of music.”
As a student in the Film and Television program at the British Columbia Institute of Technology initially focused on the camera,...
Mysterious Knights of Ren Highlight 8 New Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Images
We are rapidly approaching the 9th and final installment in the Skywalker Saga, folks. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker hits theaters in a mere 11 days! There has been a deluge of material from Disney in the past few weeks giving us a ton of TV spots to parse. Now, they’ve kindly released a batch of 8 new photos. Some of these have been seen previously in various exclusives from Entertainment Weekly and the like,...
Joker and Marriage Story Lead the Golden Globes Pack
Your 2020 Golden Globes nominations have been announced, with Noah Baumbach‘s Marriage Story and Todd Phillips’ Joker leading the pack with six nominations each. Not far behind are Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman and Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time In…Hollywood, each garnering five nominations. All four films received Best Motion Picture noms (with Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in…Hollywood landing in the Musical or Comedy category,...
First Ghostbusters: Afterlife Trailer Reveals Jason Reitman’s new Generation of Ghostbusters
A new generation of Ghostbusters are upon us, and they’re coming at you from…Oklahoma? Yup. Behold the first trailer for Jason Reitman‘s Ghostbusters: Afterlife, with Reitman taking on the franchise his father Ivan began in 1984. Reitman co-wrote the script with Gil Kenan (City of Ember), which builds on the events of both the original Ghostbusters and its sequel (both directed by his dad) that starred Dan Aykroyd,...
First Wonder Woman 1984 Trailer Reveals Diana’s Dangerous New Life
The first trailer for Wonder Woman 1984 is finally here. Director Patty Jenkins and star Gal Gadot have brought Diana Prince a long, long way from the World War I setting of the first film, bringing the lasso of truth slinging superheroine into an era of shoulder pads, big hair, and New Order’s “Blue Monday” to name a few cultural touchstones. The trailer was released at CCXP, where Jenkins and Gadot were on hand to promote their hotly anticipated sequel...
De-Aging the Iconic Actors of Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman
In 2015, visual effects supervisor Pablo Helman was working with Martin Scorsese on Silence, a stirring film about the Christian faith during 17th century Japan. The two ended up having a conversation that ignited a technological advancement within the visual effects industry—one that will likely become a new standard in how images can be captured and processed during filmmaking.
“We were talking about a project and I mentioned making one of the characters younger. Marty [Scorsese] said it wouldn’t be good for it but he was doing another thing called The Irishman and it sounded like something that they may want to pursue,” says Helman,...
Rey Rocks the Double-Edged Lightsaber in New Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Spot
Look, we get it. There’s been a ton of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker promo material coming your way. What did you expect? The most iconic film franchise in history is about to wrap up a saga that began 42-years ago, of course they’re going to flood the zone with TV spots. While most of the spots contain remixed footage we’ve previously seen, each one does offer a glimpse at something new. In the case of this one,...
Unraveling Marriage Story with Editor Jennifer Lame
It was well past 9 pm on a Sunday night when the word “hello” drifted through the speaker of my phone. On the line was editor Jennifer Lame who pulled herself away from Christopher Nolan’s action-thriller Tenet.
“It’s nice speaking with you again,” she said in an even-tempered tone. A tone very unlike the characters in Marriage Story from writer/director Noah Baumbach that dissects the inevitable split between spouses Nicole (Scarlett Johansson) and Charlie (Adam Driver)...
Watch The Witcher Showrunner & Executive Producer Breakdown the Final Trailer
What’s better than watching the final trailer for The Witcher? Watching an 8-minute breakdown of that trailer from showrunner Lauren S. Hissrich and executive producer Tomek Baginski. Who better to take apart and explain each and every element from the trailer than the folks responsible for getting Netflix’s ambitious new fantasy series made in the first place?
For those of you who haven’t yet decided on whether to invest in another sprawling fantasy series, there are several good reasons to give The Witcher a chance...
4 New Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Images Include Flying Stormtroopers
You’ve heard about the flying Stormtroopers. You’ve seen the TV spots that include the flying Stormtroopers. And now you can feast your eyes on this still image of a flying Stormtrooper at the moment he launches himself from the also new land-based sand cruiser (our name). We are very, very close to the December 20 premiere of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, hence the absolute deluge of promotional material we’ve gotten in the past two weeks...
Who Was the Real James Bond?
Today is unofficially James Bond Day. That’s because we got our first glimpse at the trailer for No Time to Die, the 25th installment in the Bond franchise. Directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga and starring Daniel Craig in his fifth mission as Bond, James Bond. Beginning with 2006’s Casino Royale, Craig has embodied the super spy in Quantum of Silence (2008), Skyfall (2012), Spectre (2015), and now No Time to Die. ...
8 New No Time to Die Photos Highlight Bond’s Return to Action
You’ve seen the first trailer for No Time to Die. Maybe a few times. You’re trying to process all that Bond action and situate it against what came before. You’re also thinking about how awesome it’s going to be to see Bond work with (and likely quarrel with) Latasha Lynch’s Nomi, a new 00 agent who has risen in the ranks since we last left Bond at the end of Spectre. Now that the trailer is here,...
The First No Time to Die Trailer Reveals Epic Bond Action
And we’re off! The first official trailer for co-writer and director Cary Joji Fukunaga’s No Time to Die is here, and it reveals the kind of epic Bond action you’d hope for. Daniel Craig is back as 007, and from this two-and-a-half-minute glimpse, it looks like he’s found yet another great collaborator in Fukunaga. The director of True Detective‘s excellent first season and Beasts of No Nation knows a thing or two about riveting action scenes...
New Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker TV Spot Reveals Rey vs. Kylo Duel
At this point perhaps you’re hoping to just put the blinders on and not see another piece of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker promo material. We get that. With the December 20 premiere date heading towards us faster than the Millennium Falcon in hyperdrive, we’ve been getting a lot of fresh TV spots. Yet for those of us who can’t help ourselves (or write about this for a living), every spot offers a glimpse of something new from the 9th and final installment in the Skywalker Saga...
Rami Malek’s Bond Villain Revealed in new No Time to Die Posters
Yesterday we got the teaser. Tomorrow we’ll get the trailer. Today, we get a bunch of new posters from No Time to Die, the 25th installment in the venerable Bond franchise. The new posters give us a look at our main characters—minus a Ralph Fiennes’ M here and a Naomie Harris’s Moneypenny there. Who we do have are James Bond himself (Daniel Craig, obviously), Léa Seydoux’s Madeline Swann, Ana de Armas’s new character Paloma,...
Let’s Discuss That Epic Twist in Watchmen‘s Brilliant Episode “An Almost Religious Awe”
Last week we interviewed Watchmen costume designer Megan Kasperlik about her brilliant work on one of TV’s most thrilling new shows. In the world of Watchmen, what a character wears tells you a lot. Does their mask have an inkblot on it? Then they’re a part of the white supremacist group the 7th Calvary. Does her mask come with a badge? Then you’re talking about someone like Angela Abar (Regina King),...
Heading Abroad With Charlie’s Angels Location Manager
After a sixteen-year hiatus, the sorority, camaraderie, and crime-fighting of Charlie’s Angels is back, newly helmed by Elizabeth Banks, who also wrote the script and plays one of the movie’s chief supporting roles. No longer reporting to a Los Angeles-based Charlie, the Angels are taking on lawlessness around the globe for the Townsend Agency, supported by a gaggle of Bosleys (played by Patrick Stewart, Djimon Hounsou, and Banks). At the heart of the caper is Elena (Naomi Scott),...
The Thrilling Black Widow Trailer Reveals a Pre-Avenger Natasha Romanoff
Many folks have been waiting for a stand-alone Black Widow film for a long time—we’re among them. When Marvel finally revealed that Scarlett Johansson’s super-spy would, in fact, be getting her own movie, there was plenty of reason to rejoice. Johansson’s Natasha Romanoff has been one of the most compelling characters in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, a former KGB super-spy who somehow broke free from her former captors/trainers and, after a very long and winding road,...
A New No Time to Die Teaser Reveals Glimpse of next Bond Movie
We are very much looking forward to the official trailer for No Time to Die, the 25th installment in the Bond franchise, which arrives this Wednesday. We know this thanks to a new teaser, which gives us a look at co-writer and director Cary Joji Fukunaga’s upcoming film. No Time to Die sees our favorite super-spy trying out retirement (you can guess how that goes). Fukunaga will unveil the official trailer during his appearance on Good Morning America in two days...
