From asteroid impacts to pandemics and alien invasions, apocalyptic end-of-the-world movies have always fascinated moviegoers. I’m certainly one of them. – I’ve always enjoyed a good disaster movie, and I often say that if a movie starts with Earth getting destroyed within the first 10 minutes, it means it’s good! That’s probably why my first …
Parts of the featured image are furnished by NASA. I’ve been fascinated by UFOs and the thought of aliens visiting my entire life. At the same time, I’ve been frustrated due to the grainy footage and often repeated stories about the Roswell incident. So I’ve resorted to watching sci-fi television shows and movies instead. Speaking …
From Bruce Lee to Jackie Chan and Jet Lee, and Ip Man to John Wick, I’ve always loved a good movie fistfight. And I still think that some of the best fighting movies of all time are martial arts movies. That said, martial arts in films are just as difficult to get right as car …
The most famous directors and cinematographers develop signature styles using specific techniques and equipment, including camera lenses and focal lengths. Some directors even prefer a single focal length so much that they shoot an entire film with a single lens. But is there a “best” lens or focal length for shooting a movie? Are some …
Several inventors developed early forerunners to the modern video camera in the late 1800s. So, when was the first video camera invented? Louis Le Prince is credited with patenting the first 16-lens movie camera in 1888. However, the Kinetograph, which was patented in 1891, is considered the first functioning movie camera in a single housing. …
Lucasfilm has released about 7 minutes of never-before-seen footage from behind the scenes from the 1980s sequel The Empire Strikes Back. The footage is released in celebration of the film’s 40th anniversary. In the footage, you see the filming of battle scenes from the frozen planet Hoth, some of which took place in Norway in …
Where: Berlin Sci-Fi Filmfest What: 110 films from 28 countries over 20 sessions When: 27th November to 6th December 2020 Featured Artwork by Giorgos Tsitras Today Berlin Sci-Fi Filmfest kicked a week filled with some exciting sci-fi films from all around the globe. And I’m proud to say that my first short film, VECT0R, is screening …
Some of the most powerful moments in film are when a central character gives a passionate speech that greatly impacts the rest of the movie. But what is a movie monologue, and why are they so powerful? A movie monologue is a speech given by a single character. The best monologues from movies mostly happen …
As a sci-fi and fantasy geek who enjoys a feel-good and fun blockbuster from time to time. The MCU timeline gets complicated pretty quick – especially with the Loki tv series introducing multiple timelines and Doctor Strange introducing multiverses. So I created two lists of Marvel movies in order to make sense if you want …
When I saw the latest trailer for the film adaptation of Frank Herbert’s epic sci-fi novel Dune (1965) by director Denis Villeneuve, I thought something looked very familiar. Some of the shots in the new trailer looked very similar to the cinematography of the 1984 adaptation of Dune by David Lynch, which I personally love …