How Apollo 10 1/2 Reanimated Houstons Lost Memories of the 60s
Posted on June 12, 2024
| 13 minutes
| 2732 words
| Aldo Pusey
Every once in a while, Richard Linklater gets stuck on an idea for a movie that he can’t quite imagine filming in live action. In 1998, he had all but given up on one such idea when his longtime friend and collaborator Tommy Pallotta showed the filmmaker what his roommate Bob Sabiston was working on. An animator and software engineer, Sabiston had developed a program to speed up the process of rotoscoping — an animation technique that involves tracing over live-action footage frame by frame.
[Read More]How I Met Your Mother Recap: The Dobler Effect
Posted on June 12, 2024
| 6 minutes
| 1120 words
| Elina Uphoff
How I Met Your Mother P.S. I Love You Season 8 Episode 15 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » How I Met Your Mother P.S. I Love You Season 8 Episode 15 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » CBS couldn’t have picked a better time to officially announce the renewal of How I Met Your Mother for a ninth and final season.
[Read More]How Much Does a Mega-Producer Makeand Spend?
Posted on June 12, 2024
| 1 minutes
| 162 words
| Sherie Connelly
We know they’re rich, but just how rich are Hollywood’s biggest movers and shakers? Sit down, take a deep breath, become at peace with your own bank account and then read on, because a high-money Hollywood money manager showed us an actual sheet of finances for a big-deal producer, and it involves the influx and outlaying of numbers with many, many zeros. This producer funnels his earnings through a tax-friendly “loan-out” corporation (these are legal entities that actors and producers put their money through for tax purposes); in this case, our money manager explains, those earnings are profits from seven previous movies and producer fees on two new ones.
[Read More]How On My Block Avoided Turning Season 2 Into an After-school Special
Posted on June 12, 2024
| 15 minutes
| 3039 words
| Elina Uphoff
Spoilers below for On My Block seasons one and two.
You know how Ruby on On My Block is L.A.’s most demanding party planner? That’s co-creator Eddie Gonzalez in a nutshell. Jamal, on the other hand, with his emergency go-bags, that’s co-creator Jeremy Haft.
The two men have been friends and writing partners for over two decades — even co-writing the 2017 Tupac Shakur biopic All Eyez on Me — but their Netflix dramedy about four high-school friends growing up in an inner-city Los Angeles neighborhood dominated by two gangs is their most personal project to date.
[Read More]How Onscreen Sex Sounds Are Made, From Kissing to Hand Jobs
Posted on June 12, 2024
| 9 minutes
| 1865 words
| Elina Uphoff
A few months ago, Comedy Central released a video depicting the (fake) Foley art of the make-out scenes from The Bachelor: raw chicken cutlets slapped together; a man jamming his fist into a giant jar of mayonnaise. It’s not how the experts really do it, obviously — so how do they achieve the sounds of sweet, tender (or not) lovemaking for the big and small screen? We talked to several Foley artists about how they create the sounds behind sex scenes.
[Read More]How Orange Is the New Black Said Goodbye to the Litchfield Inmates
Posted on June 12, 2024
| 15 minutes
| 3156 words
| Elina Uphoff
Spoilers ahead for the entirety of the final season of Orange Is the New Black.
Orange Is the New Black may have sparked from Piper Kerman’s 2010 memoir about the 13 months she spent in federal prison on money-laundering charges, but the Netflix series thrived by looking beyond protagonist Piper Chapman’s story and toward the large, diverse group of women incarcerated with her. No TV series had ever featured such a sprawling group of women, each with her own singular story, and in the final season, those women’s stories form the foundation of thoughtful and empathetic explorations of empowerment and growth, mental illness, death, and the country’s polarizing immigration policies.
[Read More]How Selena: The Series Charts Selena Quintanillas Fashion Evolution
Posted on June 12, 2024
| 8 minutes
| 1620 words
| Janel Helmers
How it started … In Netflix’s Selena: The Series, the costuming of Selena in itself tells a story of the late singer. As part one of the two-part series introduces a bubbly teenage Selena (played by Christian Serratos), with cat sweaters and awkward hair moments aplenty, the costuming quietly charts her growth into the more confident and passionate woman fans know her to be. Small moments of Selena flipping through the pages of magazines; planning the next looks of her band, Los Dinos; and musing that “there should be nice clothes that regular people can wear,” all give viewers a hint of the many layers of Selena Quintanilla.
[Read More]How Shameless Says Good-bye to Emmy Rossum and Fiona Gallagher
Posted on June 12, 2024
| 4 minutes
| 804 words
| Aldo Pusey
Emmy Rossum as Fiona Gallagher in Shameless. Spoilers ahead for the Shameless season-nine finale.
We’ve known since just before Shameless began its ninth season thatit would be Emmy Rossum’s last as Fiona Gallagher, the family’s eldest sister turned stand-in matriarch and forever HBIC. Rossum announced last summer that she was departing the series after seven years, and though we’ve had these last several months to drink the pain away Gallagher-style, it’s time to pull ourselves up off whatever derelict floor we’ve woken up on, and stare bleary-eyed at this new Fiona-less world.
[Read More]How the Years Most Harrowing Nude Scene Came Together
Posted on June 12, 2024
| 10 minutes
| 1996 words
| Elina Uphoff
Spoilers below for Revenge.
The movie Revenge is a bare-knuckle punch to the face with a very big fist. The thriller stars Matilda Lutz as Jen, a woman on a desert getaway with her rich, married boyfriend, Richard (Kevin Janssens). What begins as a sexy, sweaty weekend in the middle of nowhere turns into a living hell when Richard’s hunting buddies arrive at his villa. Taking advantage of his absence one afternoon, one of his friends rapes Matilda while the other ignores her screams and watches TV in the nearby living room.
[Read More]How Torturous Is A Dogs Way Home for Animal Lovers?
Posted on June 12, 2024
| 7 minutes
| 1438 words
| Sherie Connelly
Near the end of Mary Harron’s 2000 film American Psycho, as Patrick Bateman’s insanity reaches fevered heights, the (maybe) serial killer picks up a kitten and appears to be on the verge of shooting it at the insistence of an ATM’s instruction screen. We’ve seen Bateman commit one unspeakable act after another yet this is the most upsetting moment. When he kills a woman instead, letting the kitten go free, it’s a relief.
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