Reel Speak

In 1993, famed director Steven Spielberg released two films which could not be more different from each other. In June of that year,...

One of the most bewildering mysteries in cinema is why movies based on video games always turn out to be dead turkeys. With the adva...

“The Dude abides…” This month marks the 20 th anniversary of Joel and Ethan Coen’s THE BIG LEBOWSKI. A dark comedy with eleme...

The last time we saw writer/director Alex Garland, he brought us the brainy and most-excellent EX MACHINA, which was a closed-quarte...

There’s a lot to look forward to in the cinematic month of March. With the Oscars and awards season over, 2017 can be officially consi...

The 90 th Academy Awards were last night, bringing a fair amount of moments ranging from good, bad, and glorious. Here’s how the punc...

When the Academy Awards were first handed out 90 years ago, the winners were known in advance. Things have changed since then, with ...

It's Oscar Week! With the 90th Academy Awards just days away, this is a time not just to celebrate awards contenders, but the art ...

Animated short films have the same challenges as live-action shorts; they need to tell a story and develop characters as swiftly and e...

Short films can be considered to the purest form of filmmaking. With limited time to work with, the challenge is to tell a story and d...