October 30, 2019
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Here's Everything You Should Know Before Seeing Terminator: Dark Fate

...to learn whatever skills she’ll need in order to teach her son (she’s pregnant) how to fight the future Skynet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k64P4l2Wmeg&t=3s In T2, we’re now in 1995 and once again Sarah Connor...

November 1, 2019
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Composer Alan Silvestri on Going Big in Avengers: Endgame

...War, this was no small task. Whether grand and poignant (“Portals”), foreboding (“Becoming Whole Again”), or surprisingly jazzy (“The How Works”), Silvestri’s score epitomizes the sound of the modern-day superhero epic. He...

November 18, 2019
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Scarlett Johansson, Azhy Robertson, and Adam Driver in 'Marriage Story.' Courtesy Netflix.

Marriage Story's Production Designer on Creating an Environment of Heartbreak

...adds, how the colors were—browns and grays, oranges on the subway, and “the dark greens of New York (contrasted with) the paler greens of L.A.,” along with the latter’s’ “sun-kissed colors.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHi-a1n8t7M...

November 12, 2019
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Cynthia Erivo stars as Harriet Tubman in HARRIET, a Focus Features release. Credit: Glen Wilson / Focus Features

Producer Daniela Taplin Lundberg on Pushing Boundaries With Harriet and Honey Boy

...theatrical film about the Underground Railroad heroine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqoEs4cG6Uw&t=6s Honey Boy, a stirring drama inspired by writer and star Shia LaBeouf’s own turbulent childhood, follows the complicated relationship between a young actor and...

December 2, 2019
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Composer Christophe Beck on Returning for a Second Round of Ice & Earworms in Frozen II

...the problem, discounting her non-magical sister’s pluckiness and the commitment of Kristoff (Jonathan Groff), Anna’s reindeer-loving boyfriend, and Olaf the snowman (Josh Gad), the movie’s delightfully wackadoo comic relief. But at the...

December 5, 2019
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Unraveling Marriage Story with Editor Jennifer Lame

...and how they can remain co-parents to their son Henry (Azhy Robertson). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfBSbgaqPr8&t=12s Lame weighed the even-handedness of the story, making sure narrative and character arcs stood ground. It starts out with...

January 8, 2020
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Oscar Watch: The Lion King's VFX Supervisor's Groundbreaking New Techniques

...the stage and you have to manipulate them to complete the characterization. It’s in that vein except it’s all done on the computer and not done in the physical world. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7i0K81zqHyI&t=2s How...

December 17, 2019
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How Watchmen Cinematographer Gregory Middleton Captured Hooded Justice's Harrowing Origin

...to get more of what we wanted.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zymgtV99Rko There were additional “co-lensers” as well, including Chris Seager, who shot “all the episodes in Wales,” which doubled for Adrian Veidt’s land of exile...

December 20, 2019
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Phoebe Waller-Bridge in 'Fleabag.' Courtesy Amazon.

Best of 2019: Fleabag's Emmy-Nominated Cinematographer on Crafting a Nearly Flawless Second Season

...lighting, I’ve failed.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX2ViKQFL_k When you talk about Fleabag, you usually begin by talking about Waller-Bridge breaking the fourth wall. In what could be a comedy killer in lesser hands is here...

January 3, 2020
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Freya Allan & Anya Chalotra on Playing The Witcher's Powerful Women

...future for her, tell her what to do, and restrict her, but ultimately she decides what she’s going to do with her future. It’s such an exciting journey.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQPxD-GbF2c For Ciri, the...