The Human Insurance Policies: Sit in for a Master Class With Veteran Stunt Professional Hugh O’Brien
...understands the working intricacies and physical mechanics of how stunt equipment works. They will design, build and test the mechanical systems to help the stunt performers do their job. They are usually...
How do you Make a Zombie a Sex Symbol? We Speak With Warm Bodies Writer/Director Jonathan Levine to Find out
...with Warm Bodies, which he adapted from the Isaac Marion novel of the same name. The film centers around the budding paranormal romance between a zombie named R (Nicholas Hoult) and a kick-ass...
The 2013 Sci-Tech Awards Honor 25 of Cinema’s Under-the-Radar Geniuses
...cry on command, or gain vast amounts of weight to play against type; rather, these are the scientists and engineers whose complex inventions and discoveries have, over time, revolutionized the way films...
Veronica Mars Takes Hollywood By Storm: We Imagine The Next Back-From-The-Dead Kickstarter Projects
...it happen? Kristen Bell and director Rob Thomas issued a heartfelt call to their fans to fund bringing the short-lived UPN cult television franchise back to life once more—this time, for the big...
Golden Age of Documentaries: A Q&A With Filmmaker Jamie Meltzer
...rescue a friend of his stranded in the Ninth Ward. He went on to found Common Ground, a successful grassroots relief organization. Then at the 2008 Republican National Convention, in a twist...
The Greatest Gatsby: Before Leo,There was Redford
...established himself capable of holding the screen, even when sharing it with one of Hollywood's hottest commodities in Paul Newman. Redford was dynamite in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, so Evans had...
The Rise of Shailene Woodley:The Spectacular Now Star Shines Bright
...Erudite (knowledge and astuteness). Tris and her fellow ‘initiates’ must navigate the grueling Dauntless-specific three-stage test in order to become full members. Tests include jumping on and off moving trains, throwing punches...
Director David Twohy on how he Crafted the Riddick Trilogy’s Exoplanets
...place and creating an environment that always includes a half light, half dark situation, and thus favors those nocturnal creatures’ evolution. Additionally, the underground tunneling system depicted in the film would allow...
The Carrie Phenomenon: A Brief History of Telekinesis
...curious Princeton undergraduate’s senior thesis in the late 1970s. Using a random events generator (REG), she tested whether a subject could use psychokinesis (PK is how telekinesis is described in all scientific...
Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of The Right Stuff With Writer/Director Philip Kaufman
...opportunity to try and break the sound barrier in the X-1, a supersonic prototype built by the Bell Aircraft Company in a joint project between the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, the...