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Read This: An in-doof look at the man behind Mad Max’s Doof Warrior May 21, 2015 12:43 PM One of the very first clues as to what exactly you’re in for with Mad Max: Fury Road is when the camera centers on a masked man bouncing around on bungee cords shredding guitar from the top…
Consider this a capital “R” rumor for the time being, but it is a juicy one; we already know that Sony and Marvel Studios are circling several young actors for the role of Spider-Man for the upcoming reboot, with Ender’s Game star Asa Butterfield apparently at the very top of that list. But now we’ve…
Know your post-apocalypse warlords · For Our Consideration · The A.V. Club.
Seeing the world’s favorite classic video game characters come to life sounds like it should make for an amazing movie, but Pixels‘ latest trailer is basically an enumerated list of how it can all go wrong. It’s strange, because the film even has a decent core conceit: that the world’s best retro game nerds have to…
Look, movie villains’ plans never make perfect sense. That’s the price we pay so we can watch our heroes foil them with explosions and clever witticisms, and it’s a price we pay gladly. But while we don’t expect our bad guys to be infallible geniuses, we at least expect them to not be actively tripping…
The Cannes Film Festival is reportedly not allowing women into screenings if they’re wearing flat shoes. I’m not sure I could’ve come up with a better metaphor for sexism in the film industry if I was really, really trying. If you wrote this into a novel about sexism in the film industry, it would seem…
This article was written by Miguel Penabella and originally published on Haywire Magazine. It’s also part of Kill Screen’s Film Week, a week-long meditation on the intersection between film and videogames. Check out the other articles here. And, if you’re in NYC, grab tickets to our Film Fest at Two5Six tonight, Friday, May 15th. The…
Post-credits scenes—or “stingers,” if you don’t want to write out “post-credits scenes”—are a lot of fun. They’re like the tiny, bonus ice cream cone that you find at the bottom of a normal-sized ice cream cone. The problem is that they’ve become too common. They’re not special anymore. Stingers have rules and expectations now, and…
END “MORE ON” SINGLE STORY BOX v. 2 TriStar Pictures; Touchstone PicturesWhen Paul Verhoeven’s Starship Troopers hit theaters 16 years ago today, most American critics slammed it. In the New York Times, Janet Maslin panned the “crazed, lurid spectacle,” as featuring “raunchiness tailor-made for teen-age boys.” Jeff Vice, in the Deseret News, called it “a…
It’s been over two decades since CGI came careening through the silver screen to murder cops, lawyers, and other civil servants in Terminator 2 and Jurassic Park. Since then, both films have been praised for their inexplicably realistic effects, even though both movies have birthed a handful of sequels with much more powerful special effects…