June 10, 2024
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Giving the “Abbott Elementary” Teachers a Glow Up With the Hair & Makeup Maestros Moira Frazier and Constance Foe

...it was black,” Foe explained. “But when you start to see it in the light, it was like an emerald or an amethyst, and it would match what she would have on,...

May 21, 2018
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Deadpool

Deadpool 2's Makeup Designer Bill Corso on Creating Wade's Brutal Face

...“The two and a half hours Josh spent in the makeup chair staring at himself in the mirror while we turned him into Cable really helped, I think. By the time Josh...

February 26, 2019
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YAHYA ABDUL-MATEEN II as Black Manta in Warner Bros. Pictures’ action adventure “AQUAMAN,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Credit: Jasin Boland/ ™ & © DC Comics

Aquaman Star Yahya Abdul-Mateen II is Your New Candyman

Beware next time you look in the mirror. The Candyman is back. Yahya Abdul-Mateen II must not have a fear of bees. Variety reports the Aquaman star has landed the coveted role...

August 6, 2019
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Margot Robbie on the set of 'Once Upon a Time In...Hollywood.' Courtesy Sony Pictures

Creating the Look for Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in…Hollywood

...star in ONCE UOPN A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD. Courtesy Sony Pictures. Jean Ann Black, who has worked as Pitt’s personal on many films, including Moneyball, World War Z and By the Sea,...

June 17, 2020
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Featured image: Yahya Abdul-Mateen II in 'Candyman.' Courtesy Universal Pictuers/MGM

Candyman Director Nia DaCosta Reveals The Film's Incredible Prologue

...too) after the murder of George Floyd, all happening in the middle of a pandemic that has disproportionately affected Black, Hispanic, Latino and Indigenous communities. The prologue reveals four nested stories that...

March 3, 2021
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Billie Holiday (Andra Day), shown. (Photo by: Takashi Seida/Hulu)

Makeup Artist Laini Thompson on Helping Transform Andra Day Into Billie Holiday

...was first published in 1937 as a poem by Russian-Jewish schoolteacher Abel Meeropol, written in protest of the lynchings of Black Americans, then rampant in the South. As contemporary viewers can likely...

November 12, 2021
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Director Kenneth Branagh (left) and actor Jude Hill (right) on the set of BELFAST, a Focus Features release. Credit : Rob Youngson / Focus Features

“Belfast” Writer/Director Kenneth Branagh's Riveting Return to his Childhood

Writer/director Kenneth Branagh has mined his childhood experiences in Belfast to create a riveting, sumptuous film. Belfast (opening November 12), which is shot in black and white, captures a time in the...

March 14, 2022
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Karl Urban is Billy Butcher in "The Boys." Courtesy Amazon Prime Studios

"The Boys" Season 3 Redband Trailer is Monstrously Entertaining

...first two seasons of The Boys in his petulant, patently out-of-control quest to reign supreme over, well, everything. We get a shot of the blonde lunatic starring into the mirror, the only...

June 23, 2022
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(L-R): Oscar Isaac as Steven Grant and Taweret (voiced by Antonia Salib) in Marvel Studios' MOON KNIGHT, exclusively on Disney+. Photo courtesy of Marvel Studios. ©Marvel Studios 2022. All Rights Reserved.

"Moon Knight" Cinematographer Gregory Middleton on Creating Marvel's Head Trip

...is reality. I wanted to play with the idea of using parts of things you can’t see and using real black elements in the frame. There’s an interesting moment in the pilot...

January 30, 2024
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The Fittingly Frankenstein Creations of “Poor Things” Poster Designer Vasilis Marmatakis

...executed a graphic image that would encapsulate the entire film. One thick black brushstroke representing a man’s body disappears and is joined by another brushstroke from a woman’s body, the two lines...