SHORT TERM 12, THE SPECTACULAR NOW, and THE WAY, WAY BACK received as high or higher critical ratings than any of this year’s best picture nominees. So why weren’t any of them nominated?
Life After Pi: Rhythm & Hues and Hollywood’s Dirty VFX Secret
The amazing story of how a visual special effects company can win an Oscar and go bankrupt in the same month.
After the Apocalypse: Our Love/Hate Relationship with Technology, by Barry Taylor, PhD
I have been thinking a fair bit about this fascination that there seems to be with the idea of post-apocalypse, post-technological collapse. It’s evident in things as diverse as The Hunger Games, The Walking Dead, and JJ Abrams produced, Revolution’s, exploration of a world without electricity. It seems to echo the on-going love/hate relationship we have with technology…
Sex Objects: USC Study Reveals Hollywood’s Role in Sexualization of Teenage Girls
Winning Hollywood’s War On Girls There are a number of ways that faith-based filmmaking could make a significant difference in the culture-making impact of Hollywood: perhaps none more than as a movement aligned with Women’s groups against the radical sexualization…