FXRant

this page is periodically and (hopefully) frequently updated Over on social media, I provide an extensive and exhaustive chronicle of movie ...

click for larger note: This is an update to an old post , which has a lot of cool links to articles concerning the historical link between M...

Criticize a finished movie all you want but please don’t make pretend “before and after” split screen images to stoke anger about color timi...

At left, the original poster for "Pitch Black". At right, the retrofitted key art which now includes the star's name, and the ...

view on YouTube I... never noticed this before. This has less to do with a "fail" and more to do with "where does the audienc...

  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.