Guillermo Proaño

The many cinematic influences behind Quentin Tarantino 🎬 Half the fun of watching a Tarantino movie is spotting all the films, genres, and deep-cut references he’s pulling from.

Steven Spielberg was only 24 when he directed the pilot for Columbo, but the visual confidence was already there. The opening shot glides from the murderer approaching straight to the victim in one seamless move.

I experienced Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair in theaters a few months ago and it absolutely enhanced my relationship with both films. I will always listen to anyone who argues that either Kill Bill is QT’s best film. Both films are just unbelievably great. Give QT his credit.

The extras in Goodfellas weren’t just random background actors, many had real mob connections. Nearly six former mobsters were reportedly cast, including Tony Sirico, who had faced 28 arrests before later becoming famous for his role in The Sopranos.

You wanna see heaven on Earth? Top Gun being played on the USS Midway in San Diego courtesy of our old friend Painting Surfer, he say’s 🤙

Spider-Man 2 has a deleted scene where Peter sits in class completely distracted He starts drawing his Spider-Man costume while thinking about MJ and Doc Ock's experiment Sony cut it

Pikachu vs. Mewtwo final battle in Pokémon: Detective Pikachu

The ending of LOST was widely misunderstood for years & is finally getting its due reappraisal. It’s brilliant. Thematically, the final season of the show really laid the groundwork for Lindelof’s next show, The Leftovers. The parallels are undeniable. Future book idea?

ROGER MOORE — who left us 7yrs ago today, aged 89 — being as modest as ever talking with @richardpbacon about who was the best Bond.

A college kid made a cartoon for a school project and called it Whoopass Stew. It got cleaned up to The Powerpuff Girls, and that little student film has since sold over $2.5 billion in toys, clothes, and kids' meal prizes. Craig McCracken drew the first version at art school in 1992, then mailed it to Cartoon Network while working a day job as an artist at Hanna-Barbera, the old studio behind Scooby-Doo. The channel was trying something strange back then. Instead of dumping a big budget on one new show, its boss Fred Seibert paid for 48 cheap little cartoons and let viewers pick the ones worth keeping. Most flopped. Powerpuff was one of the rare hits, and it first aired in early 1995, tucked inside someone else's show. The real series ran from 1998 to 2005, six seasons and two Emmys. But the show on TV was the small part, because the real money was in the merchandise. More than 150 companies stuck Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup on lunchboxes, kids' meals at Subway and Burger King, and shirts that sold everywhere from Hot Topic to actual fashion runways. The 2002 movie, for comparison, cost around $11 million to make and pulled in just $16 million worldwide. None of that empire belongs to the guy who drew it. The Powerpuff Girls are owned by the studio that made them, now part of Warner Bros. Discovery, which is how nearly every network cartoon ends up. McCracken kept making new shows anyway: Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, then others for Disney and Netflix. His wife, Lauren Faust, took My Little Pony and turned it back into a giant toy brand of its own. He is 54 now, and right back where he started, building fresh versions of both Powerpuff Girls and Foster's at Hanna-Barbera's studio in Europe. People mostly remember the cartoon. The toys, shirts, and kids' meal prizes pulled in more than 150 times what the movie ever made in theaters.

THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES (1946) HAROLD RUSSELL - who wasn’t even a professional Actor when cast - is still the only person to receive 2 Academy Awards for the one performance in a Film.

A behind-the-scenes video of Curry Barker directing a scene for OBSESSION (2026).

One of the earliest and most iconic revolving-set sequences ever put on film. Fred Astaire dancing on the ceiling in Royal Wedding (1951) still feels like movie magic.

Buster Keaton was really riding the driverless motorcycle in Sherlock Jr.. He learned to steer from the handlebars and performed the chase on real streets, even crashing straight into the camera crew during one take.

In The Sixth Sense, the camera cuts to a close-up of Bruce Willis right after Cole says, “I see dead people.” Producers worried the shot might accidentally reveal the twist, but test audiences never caught it.

Sofia Coppola wrote Lost in Translation (2003) specifically for Bill Murray and refused to make the film without him, with the actor leaving no phone number and Coppola chasing him through messengers and mutual friends for five months.

The Dark Knight, One Battle After Another, and Terminator 2: Judgment Day are all among the best, most perfect action thrillers of the last 40 years. bit.ly/3RYApuT

Ranking Denis Villeneuve’s Last Four Films: 1. Dune: Part 2 (2024) 2. Blade Runner 2049 (2017) 3. Arrival (2016) 4. Dune: Part 1 (2021)

Christopher Nolan really filmed an entire interview segment for Harvey Dent in The Dark Knight (2008) just for background world-building. The amount of effort Nolan puts into details most people will barely notice is kind of absurd.