Manhattan’s SoHo neighbourhood is mostly filled with bored models and stupid-expensive boutiques. But on one grimy, absolutely ignorable corner is the entrance to a cavern stuffed with guns, rockets, cocaine and riot shields. This is where Hollywood locks and loads. More »
This is very neat: Someone took the 1986 movie Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and ran all the parallelisms with Matthew Broderick’s reprise for the 2012 Super Bowl. It was a great job, although Ferris is not Ferris anymore.
Sony Pictures has just released its newest trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man, the first film in a rebooted franchise. Hundreds of fans lined up this evening for a sneak peek 3D screening at Event Cinemas on George St, Sydney. Were ya there? Did ya see it? More »
A few simple camera moves can make your low-budget film look like a Hollywood feature. And thanks to a heavy steel flywheel at its core, the Polly Dolly ensures smooth tracking and dolly shots with just a single finger’s push. More »
When I saw the trailer for Chronicle, I was immediately disappointed. A Blair Witch style movie about a bunch of high school kids pulling off dumb pranks with just their minds? No thanks. But then I went to the media screening and was totally blown away. It’s not what you probably think it is. This is a science-fiction movie that you don’t want to miss. More »
The conquering of traditional film by video technology is a story whose outcome was perhaps decided years ago. But there remain the hangers-on who fight in the name of those grainy, flickering, celluloid strips. “Side by Side” is a documentary produced by Keanu Reeves (seriously) which examines the transition from film to video in the world of movies. More »
I’m very impressed by Finite Films. They’re a band of filmmakers who produce one Hollywood-level quality short film every month — and each of their short films works within the constraints that people give them on the web. More »
Since 2003, Sundance awards the Alfred P. Sloan Prize to a feature with “science or technology as a theme, or depicting a scientist, engineer, or mathematician as a major character.” 2011 saw the slow but intriguing Another Earth win, and this year it went to Robot And Frank, a near-future tale about a cranky ex-jewel thief reluctantly warming to his caretaker robot. Watch this clip: More »
So here’s how to film a horse getting trapped in barb wire without getting PETA up in arms. According to Wired UK, the effects team for War Horse avoided hydraulics because of a higher risk for failure (these takes are expensive!), so instead they opted to build a puppet box below the fake horse to control its limbs, and gave the synthetic equine an animatronic head. Watch: More »
