May 2, 2018
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The Millenium Falcon in SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY. Courtesy Lucasfilm/Walt Disney Studios

Fresh Millennium Falcon Footage Highlights New Solo: A Star Wars Story TV Spot

...the Falcon’s thrust vector plates (the very cool engine array that forms a semi-circle at the back of the ship) opening as the engines roar to life. Like Solo spots before it,...

June 7, 2018
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Photo courtesy of A24

Writer/Director Ari Aster on his Terrifying Debut Hereditary

...set design. Annie’s dollhouse-like miniatures – effects specialist Steve Newman did those. Colin Stetson, a saxophonist and clarinetist, composed that disturbing atonal score. The ambient sound design is quite effective, too. Steve...

June 28, 2018
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Review Roundup: Critics Say Ant-Man and the Wasp are Better Together and Funnier than Ever

...War spoiler) After half the universe was obliterated by Thanos, what we could really use right now is a good laugh and the latest Marvel movie delivers. Polygon’s Susana Polo called the...

November 26, 2018
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Going Deep With ABC's A Million Little Things' Rising Star Christina Ochoa

...taken on.” A Million Little Things revolves around a group of friends reassessing their lives when one of their close friends, Jon (Ron Livingston) commits suicide. Ochoa’s Morales is not in that...

January 14, 2019
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Oscar Watch: How BlacKkKlansman's Composer Channeled Jimi Hendrix's Iconic Riffs

...montage comes on, it makes you realize that as a society, we haven’t grown as much as we thought. In Black KkKlansman, characters constantly throw around the N-word. How did you respond...

February 22, 2019
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Credit: David Lee / Focus Features

How BlacKkKlansman's Oscar-Nominated Composer Channeled Jimi Hendrix

...a lot of composers do these days? I’ve always loved the process of working with live musicians because when I compose music. I know what its supposed to do. But when you...

May 23, 2019
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SANTA BARBARA, CA - FEBRUARY 06: Director Christopher Nolan speaks onstage at the Outstanding Directors Award Sponsored by The Hollywood Reporter during The 33rd Santa Barbara International Film Festival at Arlington Theatre on February 6, 2018 in Santa Barbara, California. (Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for SBIFF)

Fresh Details Emerge About Christopher Nolan's Mysterious new Film Tenet

...Andrew Jackson. Nolan’s also tapped some up-and-coming talents, including composer Ludwig Göransson and editor Jennifer Lame. Producers Emma Thomas (also his wife) and Thomas Hayslip are helping steer the ship. Tenet sounds...

June 11, 2020
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Damon Lindelof and Regina King on the set of 'Watchmen.' Photograph by Mark Hill

Watch Regina King & Damon Lindelof's Peabody Award Acceptance Speech for Watchmen

...and his team using their iconic story as a launching pad to explore race in America. In fact, the entire engine of Watchmen‘s story was built upon the 1921 massacre of black...

August 12, 2020
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Esmé Creed-Miles as “Hanna,” (left) and Yasmin Monet Prince as “Clara” (right) in HANNA Season Two on Amazon Prime Video. Photo Credit: Chris Raphael/Amazon Prime Video

"Hanna" Editor Morten Højbjerg on Cutting Amazon's High-Octane Thriller

...So far, so good. Then you start playing with sound to create distance, now it’s coming from left to right, or now it’s coming from the back of the shot towards us,...

August 26, 2020
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On the set of THE MANDALORIAN, exclusively on Disney+

Emmy-Nominated DP Greig Fraser on Harnessing Cutting-Edge Tech in "The Mandalorian"

...Favreau set up the LED-based “volume,” as certain 21st century sound stages have come to be known, where around half of the series was shot. Meaning that locations all over the galaxy...