Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Marvel’s latest superhero movie, Ant-Man, is very well made. It has some good action and a few really clever bits. There are some funny parts, along with some not-that-funny parts. This movie pretty much gets the job done. But it’s not particularly memorable, or especially amazing. Minor spoilers ahead… In a sense, Ant-Man shows how…
A lot of Pixar films come packaged with a quasi-humanist narrative hook that enables the public digestion of their work. Viewers nodded thoughtfully over WALL-E’s depiction of a future earth choked by the refuse of big-box retail, and of a human race infantilized and rendered obese by mindless consumption, while Brave was the first Pixar…
There’s been a steady stream of images and information coming from the set of Suicide Squad, and after footage from Saturday’s Comic-Con presentation leaked, David Ayer just released the preview footage from his film. As you’d expect from a movie by Ayer (Fury, Training Day), it’s gritty and grim — with Jared Leto’s Joker intoning,…
Comic-Con may be over, but the superhero news keeps rolling in. EW has unveiled our first look at some of the characters in the upcoming X-Men: Apocalypse and, um, well they’re going with some really interesting looks here. OK, let’s break this down character by character. Oscar Isaac as Apocalypse What, just what? Who is that giant…
The pay gap in Hollywood is real, and Amanda Seyfried is the latest actress to speak out about it. Seyfried recently told the Sunday Times that she recently made far less money than an equally famous male co-star on one of her movies. “A few years ago, on one of my big-budget films, I found…
Fan theories are like hot dogs: We know they lack any real substance, but we can’t stop consuming them because they’re fun to eat. Luckily for us, the Internet is a perpetual motion machine that endlessly churns out insane reinterpretations of our favorite movies and TV shows, some of which are way more convincing than they have…
Horror director Eli Roth is done with your clicktivism attitudes. The “social justice warriors” of the Internet are now the latest crop of victims in Roth’s movie, “The Green Inferno.” A seemingly innocuous tale about a couple of kids who head into the jungle to do good, and end up good eats. We spoke with Roth…
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One overlooked aspect of Spielberg is that he’s actually a stealth master of the long take. From Duel to Tintin, for forty years, he has sneakily filmed many scenes in a single continuous shot. Eight long examples: https://vimeo.com/tonyzhou/spielberg-… Twelve short examples: https://vimeo.com/tonyzhou/spielberg-… For educational purposes only. English & Portuguese subtitles by Akemi Mitsueda. You can…
There are filmmakers we love and then there’s Michael Bay. Even if you dislike him (as I do), Bay has something valuable to teach us about visual perception. This is an exploration of “Bayhem” — his style of camera movement, composition and editing that creates something overblown, dynamic and distinct. For educational purposes only. You…