Author: Jacob Oller

Some performances are just too close to reality. David Fincher’s remarkable Mindhunter isn’t just a gripping psychological police procedural. It’s a lot of fun. And…

Finding patterns in logistics and aesthetics. Andrei Tarkovsky has created some of the most beautiful shots in cinema, even if they serve workmanlike purposes that…

Jeepers Creepers, where’d you get those peepers? There’ve been some truly terrifying figures created through film and one of the most important aspects in creature…

An author so prolific that this video is already out of date. Stephen King has been trying to work himself to death after realizing how…

Screenwriting fundamentals impact action as much as choreography. Conversations around fight scenes are often erroneously diluted down into degrees of badassness, when many more layers…

The 39 Steps? How about 39 different staircase movies?

Comedy and horror are the peanut butter and chocolate of genres. Tongue-in-cheek, parody, camp, and slapstick all have homes in subgenres of horror. Evil Dead…

The horror short has one of the most original creature designs in recent memory. Fresh off the heels of It, more kids are missing thanks…

It’s like a timelapse met Ken Burns in an old library, but fun. Harrison Jeffs and Sebastian Crank’s tribute to the history of Boston takes…