FXRant

A photo of a print of a movie. I'd love to talk in much greater detail about this topic, because it's a wonderful and complicated an...

The other night, I happen to watch the final act of “Alien vs. Predator”, a questionable piece of ‘entertainment’ in Fox-owned synergisti...

The other day, I unleashed a mini-tweetstorm about diopter shots. It all started with a visual effects shot from "Star Wars: Episode II...

Just as I did for  2012 films and 2011 films , I thought it would be interesting to track the average global box office grosses from this...

The teaser for Gareth Edwards’ “Godzilla” was given high praise from moviegoers for its beautiful, evocative imagery. The rhythm and pac...

Just like last year, I thought it would be interesting to see a breakdown of the average box office earnings of each of this year's ...

An image from "Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows, Part II", which has earned over $1.3 billion at the global box office. ...

It's time for the Awesomest Oscar Pool Ballot In The History Of Oscar Pool Ballots. Each year I create a special ballot based on the osc...

Yep, this pretty much sums it up from my perspective. "If you can't make it good, make it 3D." source

Having an Oscar party this weekend? Want to liven things up with a pool? If so, use this ballot I created for my Oscar party. Every year I...

In Part 1 , we looked at cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema's geometric motifs in "Let The Right One In." In this post, we loo...

Illustrating a visual motif without being overt and obvious is not a simple task. Director Tomas Alfredson and his cinematographer Hoyte v...

Two summers ago, I wrote about a Pixar film standing tall as the only major summer studio feature that was wholly original. In Wonder Takes...

The visual effects teams from "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" nabbed four VES Awards last week, with "The Dark Knight...

“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” Eric Barba, Steve Preeg, Burt Dalton and Craig Barron Hearty congratulations go out to the visual effe...

Hi, all! Here's the press release sent out by the Visual Effects Society, announcing their nominees for the 7th Annual VES Awards. I...