December 9, 2013
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Thor-Inspired Contest Encourages Young Women to Pursue STEM Careers

...the time to explain such a huge thing to a ninth grader, in a way I can comprehend and enjoy hearing about,” she reflected in her video contest entry. Channeling Jane Foster,...

November 6, 2015
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The 33 & the Surprisingly Rich Tradition of Mining Movies

...science teacher (Laura Dern, terrific) encourages his ambition for a life beyond the mines. The film is based on the highly-regarded memoir Rocket Boys by Homer Hickam, who became a NASA engineer....

October 18, 2018
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How The Hate U Give’s Cinematographer Captured an American Tragedy

Fresh out of film school, Romanian cinematographer Mihai Malaimare Jr. jumped into the deep end when Francis Ford Coppola arrived in Bucharest eleven years ago to film his coming of age drama...

March 1, 2024
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Lights, Camera, Action (Plan): A Focus on the Filmmakers of Tomorrow at Berlinale

...points come around,” Rivkin said. Photo by: Photo: Tina Merkau. Copyright: Morrison Foerster For the panelists, there were two main contemporary inflection points — community and the new innovative technologies. These topics...

October 19, 2017
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How Wonderstruck DP Edward Lachman Channeled The French Connection for Kids Adventure

...lights.” Millicent Simmonds is Rose. Courtesy Amazon Studios. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S0X_pskvlY Rose’s monochromatic Manhattan stands in contrast to the vivid grit of New York as experienced in 1977 by suddenly deaf 12-year old Ben...

August 9, 2019
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Production Designer Brent Thomas on Building the Emotional The Art of Racing in the Rain

...are part of that journey now too.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp2ufFO4QGg When speaking with Brent about lending his passion to the big-screen adaptation of Stein’s much-beloved story, I asked if he became familiar with the...

May 23, 2017
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Pretty Much Everyone is Thrilled About Tom Hardy Being Cast as Venom

...to Venom, and the last and only time he was played on the big screen was by Topher Grace in Spider-Man 3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8LWjDS3IkQ Yet Venom’s always been an intriguing character, ranked the...

May 5, 2021
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Rod Roddenberry Reflects on His Father’s "Star Trek" Legacy for Centennial Year

...diversity because they understand that to represent humans in space, you need to represent all of us. No matter what your ethnic, gender, socio-economic, religious, political background is, it should all be...

January 8, 2015
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Taken 3 & Liam Neeson’s Long History of Bringing the Pain

...her family by professional hitman Léon, played by Jean Reno. (The Professional also has one of the all-time great Crazy Gary Oldman Performances as the ultimate Bad Lieutenant.) As Mills in the original...

October 1, 2015
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Meet Tigris, the New The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 Character

...around and his eyes got big and soft and he had a huge smile on his face and he said, ‘’Eugenie, come here, come here,’ and I thought, ‘I’m in a magical...