FXRant

  File this under things "only Todd" thinks about. I was thinking about "M*A*S*H" s08e11, the 'real time' episod...

view on YouTube Fellow "Heat" (1995) fans - I just found an amazing Easter Egg on the Blu-ray. It's an early edit of the infam...

The tweet you see above is an absolutely perfect example of how the success of plausibility and believability of modern digital effects is u...

"Columbo" s02e04, in HD as it appears on Peacock Important context for the discussion of "how easy is it to remaster an old T...

Looks like the on-screen subtitles of Somali dialogue in “Captain Phillips” (2013) are broken on HBO Max in the U.S. Scenes in Somalia featu...

New rule (if I was in charge): a movie studio can’t release any 4K titles of their already-in-HD movies from their catalog until every singl...

"Why does OLD MOVIE's visual effects still hold up?" shot design planning and organization taste sticking to a plan appropriat...

There's a bit of a problem with "Schindler's List" (1993) as it appears on the Peacock streaming service in the United Sta...

"2 001: A Space Odyssey" (1968) and the  "Barbie" (2023) teaser.  

This is a wonderful shot from "The Road to Singapore" (1931) that does a brilliant job establishing geography and spatial relation...

  I’ve written about movies and visual effects on the internet on: usenet alt.movies.visual-effects, 1994-1998
 vfxhq.com , 1995-1999
 FXran...

Look at this amazing two-shot scene from Danny DeVito's "The War of the Roses" (1989). In terms of craft, there's SO MUCH ...

Sadly, Cinefex shut down in early 2021. While our physical copies of Cinefex magazine live on, as does the iPad edition of classic issues (b...

There's a lot to like about "It" (2017). It's gorgeous, has an amazing cast, some genuinely scary moments and an incredibl...