Entries Tagged as 'movie'

Sunday, May 7th, 2017

10 Horrifying Stories Behind Your Favourite Disney Movies

We all love Disney movies growing up, getting lost in their magical movie worlds and lovingly realised animation, but they come from dark places as this video reveals. Because most of the Disney movies are based on actual fairy tales and legends that aren’t as pleasant as the cutesy versions that we all know and [...]

Thursday, May 4th, 2017

Girl Shows How To Invent the Perfect Star Wars Names

After her friends pointed out that she was really good at making up Star War names, Jenny Nicholson has decided to give this tutorial video on how she does it. So she explains her method, which involves taking normal names and combining it with a name made from real words or take a normal name [...]

Monday, April 17th, 2017

Opening Shots of Movies Tell Us Everything We Need to Know

Opening shots reveal an awful lot about the movie you’re about to watch—even though, watching it for the first time, you might miss a lot of what’s in the frame, that shot is integral in showing the audience the character’s world, and the world you’re about to enter.

Tuesday, April 11th, 2017

What if ‘The Matrix’ Starred Will Smith?

You probably spend many a sleepless night lying awake in bed pondering what the Matrix would of looked like had it starred the Fresh Prince himself, Will Smith as Neo instead of Keanu Reeves. Well, there’s good news because you will no longer have to spend any more nights losing sleep, because YouTuber The Unusual [...]

Monday, April 10th, 2017

‘Love You Ma!’—Video Essay Celebrates Movie Moms

You no doubt love your mom, but you’ve probaly also wished some movie moms were yours too. Don’t feel bad about it, the movies have come up with some great moms, from Martin Scorsese’s mom who we get to see in Goodfellas, to Forest Gump’s, and *sniff* Bambi’s.

Tuesday, April 4th, 2017

‘It’ Trailer Mashed with ‘The Cat in the Hat’ is Horrifying and Hilarious

You’ve no doubt seen the trailer for the new ‘It’ movie based on Stephan King’s novel, well if you thought it was scary it’s now been turned into something even more horrifying. How? Well amazingly by replacing Pennywise the dancing clown with Mike Myers’ portrayal of the Cat from the 2003 film, Dr. Seuss’ The [...]

Wednesday, March 22nd, 2017

Death Proof is Tarantino’s Love Letter to a Bygone Era

Of all Quentin Tarantino’s movies, his 2007 exploitation movie Death Proof is probably his least valued—even the director himself has spoken before about it being the “worst movie” he’s made. That’s not to say it’s a bad movie, but the rest of his films are so great, that it doesn’t really stand up against them. [...]

Monday, March 20th, 2017

This Film Theory Posits the Cars in the Cars Movie Aren’t Actually Cars

The trailers for Pixar’s Cars 3 have been pretty traumatic considering it’s a kids movie, seeming to suggest the death of Lightning McQueen, who’s been the main character for the films so far. And if you thought that idea was harrowing enough then you’ll be even more upset by the idea put forward in this [...]

Tuesday, March 14th, 2017

Jeff Bridges Revives ‘The Dude’ to honor Big Lebowski co-star John Goodman

Next year it will be, shockingly, 20 years ago that The Big Lebowski was released. Yep, it really was that long ago which is either going to make you feel terribly old or terribly young, depending on whether you were born by then or not. Recently one of the film’s stars, John Goodman, was honored [...]

Wednesday, March 1st, 2017

Behind the Scenes of Ghost in the Shell

CGI is obviously something that is a major part of filmmaking these days, but not all effects are computer-generated. Practical effects like puppets and animatronics are still very much in use. One place that’s certainly true is in the upcoming Ghost in the Shell movie. In this video Adam Savage visits Weta Workshop to get [...]

Monday, February 27th, 2017

La La Land as Directed by David Lynch

The greatness of David Lynch, and what also makes his movies totally terrifying, is that he can turn anything into something sinister and dangerous. And so, with that methodology in mind CineFix have taken this year’s Oscar favorite La La Land (not ‘quite’ the Best Picture winner), a feel good movie with lots of singing [...]