And Now the Academy Might Not Want an Oscars Host at All

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December 10, 2018 · 1 min · 29 words · Jennifer Lee

Andy Serkis on His Most Groundbreaking Motion-Capture Performances

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. The messaging and understanding what performance capture is has been difficult to explain to the general public. You are literally driving a digital mask. The way he described it to me was, We want an actor to play Gollum on set. The character is going to be manifested as CG. At that point, he started to talk about this technology called motion capture....

December 10, 2018 · 2 min · 326 words · John White

Can Special Effects Be Special Again?

How the VFX industry plateaued and where it might go from here. Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Youll believe a man can fly. It wasnt an idle promise. Today, its hard to imagine a cinematic world where humansdontfly. Anything, it seems, is possible. And maybe thats the problem. Its not that the VFX were bad; often, they were quite good....

December 10, 2018 · 4 min · 671 words · Scott Parker

Can You Make It As an Artist in 2018 Without Constantly Plugging Yourself on Instagram?

Spend 47 days in the art world withSeen. Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. The parties, the selfies, the beaches and, oh, yeah, the art. But some artists have chosen to opt out, as best they can, from web 2.0 self mythologization. Theyve decided to delete Instagram. There is a long tradition of artists refusing to play the self-promotion game. As one recent art school graduate put it to me, Instagram has reached the level of infrastructure....

December 10, 2018 · 2 min · 378 words · Bryan Brown

Clara’s GhostIs One of the Strangest Films of the Year

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Is Clara losing her mind? Has she always been this eccentric? But self-absorption rules this family, as we soon learn. Back home, the competitiveness becomes even more poisonous. Meanwhile, Claras hold on reality seems to grow ever more tenuous. For all the complicated unease it provokes, this really is a simple, unassuming movie. The setting is their house and surrounding environs....

December 10, 2018 · 1 min · 99 words · Jessica Garcia

Constance Wu in Talks for New Rom-Com, One That Asks, ‘What If You Got Pregnant by Two Men at Once?’

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. You know those pregnancies that are like … double pregnancies? Or as wed describe it: living hell! AsThe Hollywood Reporterhelpfully points out, superfecundation, while very rare, hypothetically could result in this exact scenario. And you know what? Related Tags:

December 10, 2018 · 1 min · 54 words · Morgan Morgan

Doctor WhoRecap: Be the Better Man

Doctor Who Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. This isnt a complaint at least not about its lack of finality. Of course, that isnt quite the case here, but well get there. (Hes written the upcoming New Years special, too.) Although necessary, it was still brave to cast a woman as the Doctor. It was brave to crowd the TARDIS with three friends....

December 10, 2018 · 1 min · 204 words · Xavier Turner

Family GuyPays Tribute to Carrie Fisher in Her Character’s Eulogy

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. (You know, like all bosses would want from their employees.) Fisher voiced the hard-nosed brewery manager in 25 episodes since 2005. Related Tags:

December 10, 2018 · 1 min · 38 words · Barbara Villarreal

Fyre Festival Goes Up in Flames All Over Again With New Netflix Doc

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. He just would not take no for an answer, an employee says in the trailer. And he just kept on pulling money in, somehow. Meanwhile,Hulu also has its own competing docuserieson the debacle coming next year. Netflixs doc premieres January 18, pathetic excuses for sandwiches and all. Related Tags:

December 10, 2018 · 1 min · 64 words · Kevin Schultz

Here’s a List of Hundreds of Sales Prices From Art Basel Miami Beach, Including a $2 Mil Bourgeois

Spend 47 days in the art world withSeen. Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Of the sales reported, half of these artists are living and half are dead. Bourgeois madeFemmein 2004, six years before she died at the age of 98.

December 10, 2018 · 1 min · 50 words · Kristen Phelps

Here’s Nicole Kidman As Gretchen Carlson With Not One But Two Handbags

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Or maybe the answer is that Naomi Watts looks like Gretchen Carlson, who looks like Nicole Kidman. [Takes a bong hit.] Lets go watchMulholland Drive. Related Tags:

December 10, 2018 · 1 min · 42 words · Jerry Smith

How Do the Wokest Parts ofMary Queen of ScotsLine Up With History?

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. In this, the filmmakers are following a well-established tradition in historical fiction. Even Hilary MantelsWolf Hallincludes a scene where Thomas Cromwell muses about the benefits of a universal basic income. How do the movies wokest elements line up with the historical record? I was not going to direct an all-white period drama, Rourke explained to theL....

December 10, 2018 · 2 min · 218 words · Kathleen Caldwell

Jake Gyllenhaal to Intensely Star in American Remake ofThe Guilty, Which Is Very Intense

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December 10, 2018 · 1 min · 18 words · Michael Garcia