Jurassic Park broke new ground by shifting the limits of possibility in the world of cinema, but it also established a formula that has remained virtually untouched since 1993, a formula embraced whol…
Directors of Cinema Episode 10: Steven Spielberg
Welcome to a historic episode of Directors of Cinema….at least from a numerical standpoint. To celebrate our 10th episode, we discussed the one and only Steven Spielberg. Although the topic was …
Everybody Loves Jeff Goldblum
One of the most interesting aspects of the marketing for this weekend’s big blockbuster movie, Independence Day: Resurgence has to be who the star of this sequel seems to have become. Without Will Smi…
Three Successful Movie-Based Games to Play Online Today
We all know that movies and video games often go hand in hand. We’ve seen blockbusters and failures inspired by popular video games (think Mortal Kombat, DOA, Hitman and the Resident Evil series…
HoloGrid: Monster Battle Launches Kickstarter
In celebration of the official “Star Wars” day of the year, May the 4th, film industry veteran Phil Tippett, an Oscar-winning animation supervisor that gave us the magical effects in Jurassic Park, Ro…
Memories With Spielberg: A Retrospective
There’s a reason so many people remember the films of Steven Spielberg. The director has made films with the right balance of professional craft and child-like imagination that’s connected…
The Best Realistic Science Fiction Films
Science fiction often focuses its attention on the second part of the name, but every once in a while a film looks to the future but grounds itself in harder concepts of what is and is not possible. H…