Science fiction films -- especially ones featuring aliens -- require a suspension of disbelief. Filmmakers use all of the gadgets in their toolbox -- plot, dialogue, score, costuming, and more -- to convince audiences that they're aboard a fantastical, futuristic, or far-away world. Fans appreciate it when alien designs use makeup effects, so a creature feels like it exists in three-dimensional space. There's even a reality show dedicated to this concept: in SyFy's "Face Off," special effects designers compete to see who can create and apply the best look for their models.
Makeup artists and directors often like practical effects as much as fans. "Guardians of the Galaxy" special effects makeup designer David White told Fast Company, "James [Gunn] always pushed for practical and makeup effects. He wanted, like me, to see the real deal there on set." Some of the best alien effects can make it hard to see...
Makeup artists and directors often like practical effects as much as fans. "Guardians of the Galaxy" special effects makeup designer David White told Fast Company, "James [Gunn] always pushed for practical and makeup effects. He wanted, like me, to see the real deal there on set." Some of the best alien effects can make it hard to see...
- 9/7/2022
- by Eric Langberg
- Slash Film
“God’s Own Country” won multiple prizes at the British Independent Film Awards, including Best British Independent Film, Best Actor for Josh O’Connor, and Best Debut Screenwriter for Francis Lee. Lee also directed the romantic drama, which stood tall at the ceremony in London; “Lady Macbeth” — which took home the Screenplay, Actress, Most Promising Newcomer, Cinematography, and Costume Design awards — and “I Am Not a Witch” (Director, Debut Director, Breakthrough Producer) had big nights as well.
Read More:‘Lady Macbeth’ Leads British Independent Film Nominations
This year’s ceremony, the 20th, took place in London. Full list of winners:
Best British Independent Film
“God’s Own Country”
Best Director
Rungano Nyoni “I Am Not a Witch”
Best Screenplay
Alice Birch “Lady Macbeth”
Best Actress
Florence Pugh “Lady Macbeth”
Best Actor
Josh O’Connor “God’s Own Country”
Best Supporting Actress
Patricia Clarkson “The Party”
Best Supporting Actor
Simon Russell Beale...
Read More:‘Lady Macbeth’ Leads British Independent Film Nominations
This year’s ceremony, the 20th, took place in London. Full list of winners:
Best British Independent Film
“God’s Own Country”
Best Director
Rungano Nyoni “I Am Not a Witch”
Best Screenplay
Alice Birch “Lady Macbeth”
Best Actress
Florence Pugh “Lady Macbeth”
Best Actor
Josh O’Connor “God’s Own Country”
Best Supporting Actress
Patricia Clarkson “The Party”
Best Supporting Actor
Simon Russell Beale...
- 12/10/2017
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
With Ridley Scott’s Prometheus looming enticingly on the horizon many of us will be revisiting the director’s 1979 classic Alien in preparation of a return to the Alienverse. What we have below is something in that vein.
Dennis Lowe has worked in special and visual effects from the late seventies, through a golden age of the technical side of the British film industry with Pinewood and Shepperton playing host to the production of some of the best loved films of the era. Thanks to the wonders of Metafilter I came across his personal site in which Lowe paints a homely picture of an exciting time in the industry,
This period was a fantastic time in the film industry and I remember well the relaxed and thoughtful ways we all set about making the models under the guidance of Effects Supervisors Brian Johnson and Nick Allder. Ron Hone was the boss in the model shop,...
Dennis Lowe has worked in special and visual effects from the late seventies, through a golden age of the technical side of the British film industry with Pinewood and Shepperton playing host to the production of some of the best loved films of the era. Thanks to the wonders of Metafilter I came across his personal site in which Lowe paints a homely picture of an exciting time in the industry,
This period was a fantastic time in the film industry and I remember well the relaxed and thoughtful ways we all set about making the models under the guidance of Effects Supervisors Brian Johnson and Nick Allder. Ron Hone was the boss in the model shop,...
- 4/16/2012
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
I hold Hammer Films' sole sci-fi outing Moon Zero Two (1969) in the same esteem... actually maybe 'bracket' is a better word; in the same 'bracket', then, as Stanley Donen's 1980 Sf flop Saturn 3. Both were attempting to ride the coat-tails of popular cinematic Sf outings (2001: A Space Odyssey and Alien, respectively) and both were full of interesting ideas and engaging production design under the top British talents of the day. And both are stinkers, really. In terms of 'guilty pleasure', each comes under the full penalty of the law, with Saturn 3 a hanging offence.
But in truth there's never been an Sf movie quite like Moon Zero Two, and perhaps it would take a company (such as Hammer then was) that knows absolutely nothing about sci-fi to even think of coming up with a 'space western' six years before the cameras rolled on Star Wars.
Moon Zero Two...
But in truth there's never been an Sf movie quite like Moon Zero Two, and perhaps it would take a company (such as Hammer then was) that knows absolutely nothing about sci-fi to even think of coming up with a 'space western' six years before the cameras rolled on Star Wars.
Moon Zero Two...
- 12/16/2010
- Shadowlocked
And now for something (almost) completely different for Everyone's A Critic- our very first, end of the year top ten list! This little gem was compiled by one of our frightfully fang-tastic featured reviewers from this past year, the monstrously maniacal Mister Matt Molgaard! The floor is all yours, so take it away, Matt...
You could place 1000 obsessive horror hounds in one giant room, ask what the scariest film of all time is, and get 1001 different answers… at least. It’s an age-old debate that in all honesty cannot be answered, as viewers rate films based on different criteria. What is scary to one person may be slapstick to another. So while I may personally prefer psychological horror, you may prefer a wealth of carnage and stomach churning gore. Whose criteria is the stronger foundation to judge what is, and what isn’t, scary?
Conundrums.
Can we honestly pinpoint the scariest film of all time?...
You could place 1000 obsessive horror hounds in one giant room, ask what the scariest film of all time is, and get 1001 different answers… at least. It’s an age-old debate that in all honesty cannot be answered, as viewers rate films based on different criteria. What is scary to one person may be slapstick to another. So while I may personally prefer psychological horror, you may prefer a wealth of carnage and stomach churning gore. Whose criteria is the stronger foundation to judge what is, and what isn’t, scary?
Conundrums.
Can we honestly pinpoint the scariest film of all time?...
- 12/31/2008
- Fangoria
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