Reblogged from Inside Movies: Visual effects artists routinely work miracles onscreen, helping Hollywood generate billions of dollars every year at the box office. Still, the VFX industry is now in a state of crisis. In the past seven months, two leading F/X houses, Digital Domain and Rhythm & Hues, have gone into bankruptcy, and several other companies have … Continue reading »

Reblogged from Inside Movies: The buzz around the state of the visual effects industry reached a fever pitch this winter when prominent effects house Rhythm & Hues filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in mid-February. Further attention was pointed at the men and women who create whole worlds from a blank green canvas during the Oscars, … Continue reading »

Reblogged from Inside Movies: More than two decades after he was sentenced to 957 years in jail for murdering 17 people, Jeffrey Dahmer remains, thankfully, America’s most notorious serial killer. Now, a new documentary from director Chris James Thompson called The Jeffrey Dahmer Files details the crimes of the so-called “Milwaukee Cannibal” using archive footage … Continue reading »

Reblogged from Inside Movies: Spider-Man’s latest foe — a horny Paul Giamatti. The Sideways and John Adams actor is in talks to appear in The Amazing Spider-Man sequel as the bruising villain Rhino — a man who had armor and a ramming horn surgically grafted to his radiation-enhanced body to become an unstoppable fighting force. … Continue reading »

Reblogged from Inside Movies: When fans of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy return to Middle-earth for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, the first of three films based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s earlier book, there will be plenty of familiar sights and sounds. Ian McKellen’s Gandalf plays a major role in this adventure, of course, … Continue reading »

Reblogged from Killer Kalyn: Elijah Wood stars as Frank in the remake of Maniac, directed by Franck Khalfoun. In the movie, the audience witnesses the slaughter Frank ensuses from his point of view — literally. The gruesome events were shot entirely from Wood’s eyes, giving an eerie glimpse into his sadistic mind. Do you think … Continue reading »

Reblogged from PopWatch: For seven-plus years the Lego videogame franchise has provided reliably fun opportunities for fans of all ages to platform, puzzle-solve, and collect prizes aplenty. But let’s face it, the brick-busting gameplay isn’t the reason we keep returning to these titles — the real draw is the series’ ability to smartly skewer our … Continue reading »