FXRant

Seen on social media: "One thing that I did not like at all about The Substance was how it was filmed as if being cut into TikToks was ...

A filmmaker friend reached out to me with a question about one of our shared favorite movies of all time, so I did what I sometimes do - I w...

I'm so happy to say that I'm the co-host of a podcast produced by Industrial Light & Magic. We call it "Lighter Darker....

Back in 2020, Hal Hickel answered a Quora question with great detail about how we created Grand Moff Tarkin for "Rogue One" (2016)...

This is just a simple apples-to-apples comparison in the most basic sense of lighting techniques and style . No judgment, no "this is r...

In an effort to combat misinformation, I'm going to make short blog posts so maybe, just maybe it can make it into search engine results...

I tweeted this incredibly non-controversial take and it got a huge reaction, so I thought I'd recycle the content for a blog post. Enjoy...

Selective attention is a concept that all filmmakers need to understand. When an audience is focusing on something, the aspects of the fram...

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

Watch on YouTube The beautiful and moving film "The Creator" (2023) is nominated for the Academy Award for visual effects, and ...

It was my absolute pleasure to (finally!) be a guest on Jason Snell's The Incomparable podcast! We talk about one of my favorite movies ...

Kris Tapley invited me to be a guest on his wonderful podcast 50 MPH, the oral history of the making of 1994's "Speed". The mo...

Folks who follow me on Twitter (currently known as X) are probably aware of my years-old, depressing, frequently updated and repetitive thre...