One of last year’s most involving and exciting superhero movies was Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. It earned an Oscar nomination for its visual effects, which include the titular ten rings, dragons, and a number of epic battle scenes. Sean Walker, VFX Supervisor for Weta FX, is no stranger to the…
The 2022 Oxford Film Festival announces film lineup for 19th edition (March 23-27, March 27-April 3) Hugo Sobelman’s SOUL KIDS is the Opening Night selection, and Max Walker-Silverman’s A LOVE STORY takes the Closing Night slot. Dale Dickey will be honored with the Breakthrough Acting Award World premieres include Tara Thorne’s COMPULSUS, and Abby Berendt…
Synopsis : Unfolding in real time, THE DESPERATE HOUR is a “riveting and pulse pounding” thriller from award-winning director Phillip Noyce. Recently widowed mother Amy Carr (Academy Award®-nominee Naomi Watts) is doing her best to restore normalcy to the lives of her young daughter and teenage son in their small town. As she’s on a…
Francis Ford Coppola is set to spend $120 million of his own money to make his long-delayed passion project, Megalopolis. The filmmaker penned the epic sci-fi drama in the early 1980s, and is now determined to self-fund the feature, he revealed during an interview with GQ magazine. The five-time Academy Award-winning writer-director has spent the…
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again; video games will be the next source to overtake the comic book blockbuster film slate. Adapting video games to the big screen has had its problems. But with the recent positive reception to the Sonic the Hedgehog film and the brilliant final product of Werewolves Within,…
About a week ago, we’ve lost the greatest special effect pioneer, Douglas Trumbull who brought impossible cinematic experience in “2001, A Space Odyssey,” “Blade Runner,” “Star Trek: The Motion Picture” and “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” I had a chance to see him in person for the special screening of “Brianstorm” at the MOMI(Museum of…
French filmmaker Jean-Pierre Jeunet is a builder of worlds. For each of his projects, he imagines a universe that may not be all that different than our own yet is touched by some degree of magic, or at least a series of unlikely coincidences that add up to something majestic. His most celebrated works include…
After Yang Synopsis : When his young daughter’s beloved companion — an android named Yang — malfunctions, Jake (Colin Farrell) searches for a way to repair him. In the process, Jake discovers the life that has been passing in front of him, reconnecting with his wife (Jodie Turner-Smith) and daughter across a distance he didn’t…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DANCE FILMS ASSOCIATION AND FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER ANNOUNCE LINEUP FOR THE 50TH DANCE ON CAMERA FESTIVAL, FEBRUARY 11-14 This year’s program will highlight the festival’s 50-year history while looking to the future of dance films and the festival’s next 50 years. New York, NY (January 10, 2022) – Dance Films Association and…
The world wasn’t quite ready when Sinéad O’Connor ripped up Pope John Paul II’s photograph protesting the Catholic church’s child abuse accusations in front of Saturday Night Live’s audience in 1992. Her action was met with a barrage of hatred and doomed her once-thriving career. But the Sundance premiere of the documentary Nothing Compares captured…
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