Breathe director Stefon Bristol’s love for sci-fi began with Jurassic Park. As he grew up and thought about how, as a Black man, he fit into society, Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing spoke to him and helped him decide to become a filmmaker.  With Breathe and his last sci-fi film, the time travel heartbreaker See You Yesterday, Bristol tries to combine the influences of both Spielberg and Lee — the latter of whom has become a mentor.  “We’ve already seen every sci-fi movie that’s out there so how do you make it fresh and different?” Bristol says. “Through characters and the culture that ..read more

Foundation, the sweeping Apple TV+ series based on the work of Isaac Asimov, has some of the most distinctive cinematography in television, enveloping viewers in scenes that span worlds, centuries, and even dimensions. No other show looks anything like it. But Foundation‘s wholly unique look — which combines a thrumming, glowing energy with a grounded sense of gravity — doesn’t come from a heavy hand. In fact, cinematographers Cathal Watters and Owen McPolin, who each shot four episode of the show’s 10-episode second season, say showrunner David Goyer and their directors allowed them notable c ..read more

“I used to ride motorbikes as a student,” says Furiosa director George Miller. “Until I did my first rotation as a young doctor in a big city hospital, in emergency. And the moment I did that, I just got rid of my motorbike.” It was the 1970s, and the Australian physician was working in Sydney while making films on the side — which led to his creation of 1979’s Mad Max. The bleak, stripped-to-the-bone highway vigilante story kicked off the career of a then-23-year-old Mel Gibson, the first Max Rockatansky, and launched a grotesquely beautiful fantasia of brutality still roaring after 45 years ..read more

Unlocked: A Jail Experiment has been the top show on Netflix almost since its release earlier this month. Normally, the stars of a hit Netflix show might expect to make some decent money. But Unlocked is not a normal show. Almost everyone in the cast is an inmate at the Pulaski County Regional Detention Facility in Little Rock, Arkansas. A t the start of the series, Sheriff Eric Higgins, who controls the jail, proposes a radical idea to deal with overcrowding and prepare inmates for eventual release to the outside world — opening cell doors so that inmates can move freely through the jail, a r ..read more

Certain parts of the chapter about Sacha Baron Cohen in Rebel Wilson’s Rebel Rising memoir have been redacted in the UK version of the book for legal reasons. In the UK version of the chapter titled “Sacha Baron Cohen and Other A–holes”, Wilson refers to “the worst experience of my professional life. An incident that left me feeling bullied, humiliated and compromised.” But it comes with a caveat: “It can’t be printed here due to the peculiarities of the law in England and Wales,” which adds that the rest of that page is blacked out and other lines in the chapter are also redacted. However, th ..read more

Tom Holland is getting involved in the creative process behind the fourth Spider-Man movie earlier than ever, the actor recently revealed. It’s because the actor, who’s been playing Spider-Man since his first appearing in 2016’s Captain America: Civil War, has “a legacy to protect.” Tom Holland on Spider-Man 4 Plans Holland opened up about his unique involvement in Spider-Man 4 at the Sands International Film Festival in St. Andrews, Scotland. He was there for a screening of “Last Call,” a short he stars in that was co-written and directed by his brother, Harry Holland. The British Spider-Man ..read more

Remember the magic of seeing Star Wars: A New Hope for the first time? (Maybe you even saw it before people called it A New Hope). These Star Wars behind the scenes images take us back to some elegant moviemaking from a more civilized age. Ready? May the force… well, you know. Stay Cool, Threepio 20th Century Fox Keeping Anthony Daniels as comfortable as possible in a stifling costume during filming in Death Valley, California — which stood in for Luke’s planet of Tatooine — was a very real concern.  Star Wars also shot many Tatooine scenes in Tunisia. Clothes Makes the Wookie 20th C ..read more

Which of these images is a wax statue and which is computer generated imagery (CGI)? Take your best guess. The post Computer Generated or Wax Statues? You’ll Never Guess With These Hollywood Images appeared first on MovieMaker Magazine ..read more

The Calgary Underground Film Festival has grown with Calgary’s reputation as a film and TV capital. Once best known for its cattle and oil industries — as well as its stunning location near the Canadian Rockies — it has become famous in recent years as the location for hits from Fargo to The Last of Us. This year’s festival captures Calgary’s mix of old and new with films that feel nostalgic and modern at once, including the opening night film, Jane Schoenbrun’s reality bending I Saw the TV Glow, which is set to be released by A24 next month, and Francis Galluppi’s retro-desert noir The Last S ..read more

Here are the 11 scariest 1970s horror movies. What a great decade for horror — and movies in general. The post The 11 Scariest Horror Movies of the 1970s appeared first on MovieMaker Magazine ..read more