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The rites and rituals of the raunchy high-school comedy can be as prescribed as a class syllabus. But what makes Emma Seligman's "Bottoms" such an anarchic thrill is how much it couldn't care less.
Sure, come to "Bottoms" with your expectations of house parties and hijinks. But you'll be...
Golda Meir was many things — modern Israel's first and only female head of government and a wartime prime minister. And she now she's provided the vehicle for Helen Mirren to try to earn some more acting awards.
The great English actor dons prosthetics and an air of sourness in "Golda" to...
Franz Kafka never realized how close he came to kickstarting a superhero franchise.
Ever since Gregor Samsa awoke in his bed to find himself transformed into a monstrous dung beetle in "The Metamorphosis," we've had spider-men, wasps, ant-men, crime-fighting ticks and mighty mantises —...
One DP got a gig that landed the first Emmy nomination not only for him but also the two-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker whose vision drove the series.
Another Oscar nominee and ASC Lifetime Achievement Award winner scored his first Emmy nomination for a sojourn into the Star Wars...
For the production community, including film commissions, Charles Dickens’ famous quote--“It was the best of times. It was the worst of times”--is quite apropos. The “best” is reflected in the current awards season when deserving work, the artists behind it, and those who facilitate it are...
It’s been an eventful first half of 2023, prompting SHOOT in its latest Midyear Report Card Survey to once again seek feedback from the advertising agency community in terms of pinpointing trends, developments and issues which have emerged as the most significant.
For the...
In 2006, a Nissan marketing executive had a truly insane idea to create a competition and an "academy" to turn gamers into race car drivers. Darren Cox saw an untapped market of potential car-buyers in Gran Turismo enthusiasts – the popular PlayStation racing simulator that first came on the...
There are some good gags and clever innovations in the animated "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem," but there is one brilliant idea: casting Ice Cube as the voice of the movie's mutant insect supervillain Super Fly.
It might have once been hard to foresee the value of having...
Who knew so many movie ideas could be found while rummaging through your attic?
This year we've had movies on Tetris ( "Tetris" ), Nike ( "Air" ), Blackberry ( "Blackberry" ) and Cheetos ( "Flamin' Hot" ). The latest is "The Beanie Bubble," a comic drama about the Beanie Baby craze of the...
“Stephen Curry: Underrated” is easily one of the most inspirational movies of the year.
This is a portrait of a man — the greatest three-point shooter of all time — who has felt inferior playing the game he loves since he was a scrawny kid playing on his local under-10 team. It’s easy to...