As radio-television-film graduate students, Annie Silverstein and Monique Walton were advised to stray away from using animals and children as primary subjects in their filmmaking.
At first glance, “Transcendence” seems like an obvious choice for Wally Pfister, making his directorial debut after a long stint as Christopher Nolan’s cinematographer.
Donna Nelson, a University of Oklahoma chemistry professor, selects chemical substances for reactions based on safety, cost, percent yield and purity, but when she became the science adviser for “Breaking Bad,” she also had to consider how easy these chemicals were for actors to pronounce.
Haunted house films have become so common in mainstream horror that they have their own sub-genre, but the notion of a haunted mirror is new to the world of cinematic terror.
The fourth season of HBO’s “Game of Thrones” confirms the argument for allowing the third book in George R.R. Martin’s massive series to be stretched out over two seasons.
Sequels always have a high bar to clear: living up to the promise of their predecessors as they make the continued story of their characters feel natural.
