Trailer: Mockingjay 2, the Last Chapter of The Hunger Games
Posted on July 26, 2015 at 11:33 pm
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Behind the Scenes: Making Michael Douglas Younger in “Ant-Man” and Wigs and Makeup for Key and Peele
Posted on July 26, 2015 at 8:00 am
“Ant-Man” begins with a flashback to 1989, with Michael Douglas appearing not as he looks to day but as he looked 25 years ago. How did they do that? Special effects that are called “digital make-up.” New York Magazine’s Vulture has the story. They spoke to Trent Claus of Lola VFX, who had both the …
New on DVD: Tales from the Royal Wardrobe
Posted on July 25, 2015 at 10:54 pm
New from PBS: Tales From the Royal Wardrobe. Historian Dr. Lucy Worsley, Chief Curator at Historic Royal Palaces, explains that the fascination with the clothes worn by the royals is not a recent development. And the monarchs have used and encouraged this fascination as a carefully orchestrated piece of theater managed by the royals themselves …
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Spoiler Alert: What Really Doesn’t Work in “Trainwreck” — and the Surprising Moments that Do
Posted on July 25, 2015 at 3:37 pm
SPOILER ALERT SPOILER ALERT SPOILER ALERT I had a few more thoughts about Amy Schumer’s “Trainwreck” that didn’t fit into my review because they are too spoilery. First, our concerns over Schumer’s party girl character, also called Amy, are supposed to be about her drinking, pot-smoking, and one-night-stands. But can we take a moment to …
The Imaginative Short Film that Inspired “Pixels”
Posted on July 25, 2015 at 8:00 am
Thanks to my friend and fellow film critic Eddie Pasa for sharing this short film by Patrick Jean, the inspiration for this week’s “Pixels.”