Did We All Lose Something To Good CGI? CGI and special effects. We all complain about those, don’t we? But, as fantasy and science fiction fans, CGI is a necessity for most of “our” films. If we want aliens that are truly alien, if we want to see other planets, and we don’t want it…
NOTE: This was written prior to the release of Episode VII. It’s almost time for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, so keep away from all spoiler-ific social media and sit back and enjoy my ranking of all six episodes of the franchise. 6. Episode II: Attack of the Clones It was a mess. It felt so…
Certain things in films go unnoticed. There’s so much to look at that viewers won’t remember that extra that walked past at forty-three minutes in or what sort of beer the character held in their hand at any given moment. There are things that stick with you like characters, quotes and even the emotions you…
In a time of massive budgets and CGI overloads, there is a special place in science fiction for the low budget. The people behind The Drift agree. The movie is a passion project for director Darren Scales and his team of over a hundred volunteers who have been working for three years to turn out 100…
Favoring style over substance has been something of a primary concern for many moviegoers of this generation’s mainstream cinema. When people think of this, their minds (or mine, specifically) usually tend to wander towards something like Transformers, where hundreds of millions of dollars are spent towards making a movie that ultimately feels more like an…
