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No one ever thought it would take four films to complete the James Bond origin story, but then no one counted on the return of Blofeld and Spectre, either. That’s what you get with the dynamic duo of Daniel Craig and Sam Mendes: it remains personal for this Bond, and what better way of tying up all of the loose ends than with the introduction of his nemesis as a doppelganger? Read more
There’s a wonderful simplicity to The Good Dinosaur. The epic landscape beautifully complements the intimate story between Arlo, the Apatosaurus, and the human boy, Spot. And it takes its time, keeping dialogue to a minimum and allowing us to revel in the exquisite visual details while being viscerally immersed in the danger. Read more
Watch the new trailer for Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight (Christmas roadshow, Jan. 8th digital), boasting more breathtaking imagery in Ultra Panavision 70. Read more
Just in time for Halloween comes Masaki Kobayashi’s rapturous quartet of ghost stories, Kwaidan, making its Blu-ray debut from Criterion in glorious TohoScope. Read more
Dean Devlin emphasized breaking up the layers between VFX and the rest of production in his VES Summit keynote last Saturday at the W Hotel in Hollywood, and Virtual Reality took center stage as the new frontier. Read more
Watch Rey (Daisy Ridley), a scavenger from the desert planet of Jakku, go up against Kylo Ren (Adam Driver), commander of the First Order, who wants to finish what Darth Vader started. It’s 30 years later but what’s old is new again. Read more
Guillermo del Toro has always been great at morphing genres into his own deliciously baroque stew, and, with Crimson Peak, he magnificently turns the Gothic romance and haunted ghost story on their heads in classical fashion. For Danish cinematographer Dan Laustsen, who last worked with del Toro on The Mimic, it was a refreshing return to a brightly-colored palette after a string of desaturated movies (including Brotherhood of the Wolf). Read more
Cinematographer Alwin H. Küchler discusses the bold choice for visualizing this unique biopic about the legendary Apple co-founder. Read more
The final glimpse of SPECTRE before opening in a month (Nov. 6 stateside) includes plenty of action as well as a memorable confrontation between Daniel Craig’s James Bond and Christoph Waltz’s Franz Oberhauser. Read more
Watch more of Leonardo DiCaprio going after Tom Hardy in Best Picture contender The Revenant, Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s follow-up to his Oscar-winning Birdman.
