Why do photoshopped family photos in movies look so bad?
Largely unimportant, but almost always unconvincing.
Film Archives: 02/2024
How was the staggering mirror shot achieved in ‘Contact’?
The existential sci-fi was a visual and technical marvel.
The legal action that forced Mike Myers into making ‘The Cat in the Hat’
He avoided the courtroom, but at a serious cost.
‘The Grey’: The severely mismarketed Liam Neeson classic
It wasn’t what it claimed to be, but that wasn’t a bad thing.
The fan theory that suggests Christopher Nolan’s ‘Interstellar’ is a prequel to ‘The Road’
Nowhere near as nonsensical as it sounds.
‘Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets’: A movie that had no right to start that well
It was all downhill from there.
Scorsese Cookbook: How to make the prison tomato sauce from ‘Goodfellas’
Culinary delights straight from the clink.
The movie Chris Hemsworth thought would end his career: “I’m going to ruin this film”
He was one of the few largely spared from outrage.
‘The Thin Blue Line’: The true crime documentary that changed the world
Revealing the injustice of the American legal system.
How the 9/11 terror attacks cancelled ‘Forrest Gump’ sequel
The Oscar-winning favourite remained a standalone story.