Category: Article
2011 Movies: Brands, Budgets, & Bankability Still Don’t Explain Why Studios Are In Crisis
By: Mike Fleming Jr The year 2011 was a schizophrenic scene for both indies and studios in film. It began with the promise of an avalanche [more…]
Why 2011 Marked a Shift In the History of Cinematography
by Jamie Stuart The first movie I saw in theaters in 2011, aside from a couple of press screenings, was “Hugo.” Yes, that’s correct: I [more…]
Best and Worst Science Fiction/Fantasy Movies of 2011
By ByCharlie Jane Anders Every year, it’s easy to come up with a long list of the year’s worst science fiction and fantasy movies. Reels [more…]
The Best Films of 2011
By David Denby “Hugo”—In Martin Scorsese’s wondrous 3-D masterpiece, you feel like you’re inside a giant box with the entire history of the cinema playing on [more…]
I know Twilight is awful, but …
by Anne Billson Reviews for Twilight: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 have been so gleeful in their derision it reminds you that critics love nothing better than [more…]
Quicker, faster, darker: Changes in Hollywood film over 75 years
by James E Cutting AbstractWe measured 160 English-language films released from 1935 to 2010 and found four changes. First, shot lengths have gotten shorter, a [more…]
Rwanda creating its own film industry
BY: STEVE TERILL Reporting from Kigali, Rwanda — — Beneath a star-filled African sky, crowds of city dwellers and rural farmers gather before a giant inflatable [more…]
The Role of Film in Society
BY: VIKAS SHAH MBE In this exclusive interview we talk to Tom Sherak, President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (best known for [more…]
US film industry set for four years of strong growth, predicts report
by Ben Child Stand by for the sound of clinking champagne glasses chiming around the Hollywood hills. A leading accountancy firm has predicted that the [more…]