The best liminal space movies create a unique feeling of being caught between places that feel familiar yet strangely unsettling. Through empty hallways, deserted malls, endless corridors, and dreamlike landscapes, these films use liminal spaces to evoke a sense of nostalgia, anxiety, curiosity, and wonder within the viewer. From psychological horror to surreal drama, the movies on this list showcase some of cinema's most memorable examples of liminality. Continue reading 13 Best Liminal Space Movies Ranked
Adirector calls action. The actors are standing on a physical set, but behind them is a massive wall of LEDs showing a photoreal alien landscape, a city at dusk, or a desert that would have taken a plane ride and a full company move to reach. It can look like magic from the outside, but it is not magic. It is a process. And like any production process, the virtual production stages only work when every stage is planned well before the shoot begins.Continue reading Virtual Production Stages Explained: How the Process Works
Mad Men has some of the best characters in all of television. The combination of the characters Matthew Weiner wrote and how they were brought to life resulted in dimensional, often dynamic characters that feel like they could walk into the room you were watching the show in. Over seven seasons on AMC, Mad Men follows the story of a New York advertising agency during one of the most changing decades in American history. Let’s dive into the Mad Men cast of characters, what they brought to the series, and the actors that brought them to life.Continue reading Mad Men…
One of the magical things about film is when the camera blends into the world and captures life as it happens. Nature documentaries have endured ages of filmmaking through three things working together: cinematographic patience to capture a subject the human eye doesn’t have the opportunity to, scientific storytelling that makes what’s being captured mean something, and the urgency to explore the relationship between living organisms and the environment around them.The genre took its first steps into the mainstream with Disney’s True-Life Adventures in the 1940s. The series of nature documentary films, both short and feature-length, was charming, sincere, and…
The series finale of The Sopranos aired June 10, 2007. Millions of viewers sat in front of their TVs with Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'" playing, Tony Soprano having dinner with his family at a diner. Meadow finally parks her car and heads for the restaurant. Tony looks up. The screen cuts to black. Silence. Had the TV disconnected? Maybe the cable went out? No. It was David Chase making one of the most debated television decisions in history, and the endless search for the Sopranos ending explained keeps drawing new audiences back to that diner booth almost two decades later.What…
Development hell. It's a common phrase in Hollywood. A place in which no one wants to find themselves, but almost all filmmakers do. Maybe you've heard of it. Development hell describes a phase of pre-production, before the green light, where projects can languish for a very, very… very long time. Few ideas are lucky enough to make it out. That's why you may hear industry veterans say, "movies are miracles." The good, the bad, and the meh. If you're watching something, even if you hate it, it's a miracle it exists. Getting films and TV shows to the point where…
The Star Wars franchise features many of the most famous, frequently quoted lines in movie history. Select bits of dialogue from the later films might be more appropriately called “infamous.” But more of the series’ best-known quotes are revered for being well-written parts of iconic scenes. Some lines simply delight because of the imagination and personality the filmmakers and actors display. But others transcend the franchise’s sci-fi setting and have been adopted as common advice on a variety of real-life topics. We’ve put together a list of some of the series’ very best quotes, with some analysis on what makes…
On paper, Ari Aster’s 2018 debut Hereditary is a gore-gone-wild take on what happens when you can’t outrun your genetics. For those who took a chance on this first time director’s idea of ‘hereditary’ horror, the story turned out to be a much greater, much more layered tale about motherhood and psychology than maybe bargained for.Slowly but surely, the story weaves together a twisted mosaic of events viewers might not have been able to quantify, with a final sequence just as loud, dark, and layered as that first shot of Peter’s bedroom. In this article, we’ll give you a complete…
Listings with video get 403% more inquiries than those without. That's according to the National Association of Realtors. That number is not a small difference. Real estate video production is now a standard part of marketing a home. It's not a luxury for high-end listings only.This guide covers the full process. It'll go over the types of video that work, the gear you need, how to plan and shoot, how to edit, and what it costs.Continue reading Real Estate Video Production: The Complete Guide
When it comes to the best thriller movies of all time, there’s a lot to choose from. While great thrillers involve the protagonist in constant and terrifying danger, some are more light hearted, while still juggling with the concepts of life and death. With such a broad genre, there are many movies in the thriller genre to choose from, including horror, psychological, true crime, and black comedy. Since it can sometimes be difficult to choose good thrillers, we decided to make the job easier for you. Listed here are the best thrillers from cinema, ranging from new classics to old…
