Author: Jacob Oller
-
Lonesome Engineering: Constructing Tension in ‘Alien’
The desolation of space is the perfect breeding ground for existential crises. Alien is as much a film series about the terrors of engineering as…
-
Less is More Than Enough: Acting and The Kuleshov Effect
Ryan Gosling stars in a case study of the editing effect. The Kuleshov Effect makes the case that meaning can come from something that wasn’t…
-
Dodge, Dip, Dive, Duck, and Deconstruct: Gender in ‘Dodgeball’
Is there more to the comedy than its ball puns? Dodgeball holds a special place in many people’s hearts as a crass, lovable, ultimately heartwarming…
-
Beaten and Bruised: Britain’s Oldest Stuntman
Rocky Taylor has been putting himself in danger longer than most people have been alive. Stunts are a young man’s game. You have to be…
-
The Thirteen Snubbings of Cinematographer Roger Deakins
Maybe 14 is his lucky number. There is no greater working director of photography than Roger Deakins. The man continues to set standards on each…
-
The Tonal Disaster of ‘The Book of Henry’
Like The Lovely Bones before it, this miscalculated stinker rang false. The Book of Henry was an utterly preposterous trainwreck of a film (and, even…
-
Relics of Future’s Past: The Production Design of ‘Blade Runner 2049’
Worldbuilding is much different when it’s your own.
-
Innocence Lost: The Children of Roberto Rossellini’s War Trilogy
Understanding wartime maturity was never so poignant.
-
Understanding the Groundbreakingly Gothic ‘Nosferatu’
The horror here is as relevant Murnau as ever. F. W. Murnau’s 1922 Nosferatu became one of cinema’s first masterpieces and in so doing, laid…