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Greig Fraser is a reminder that excellence still exists. We live in a time where it feels like everyone is cutting corners to save cost. Fraser is a living/breathing reminder that attention to detail matters. Every last stroke, image, color…it deserves care. What an artist.

keep AI out of art writers write artists draw and paint and make art musicians make music

watching project hail mary at my regular ass cinema after seeing the pictures from the imax 70mm screening

Cinematography by Greig Fraser

this is what netflix wants to take away from you

There are simply no excuses for bad visual effects in blockbusters anymore. Treat your VFX artists with respect, give them actual time to work and the results will be beautiful.

Projectionist POV: PROJECT HAIL MARY in IMAX 70mm film. Opening weekend of packed houses loving this film and getting to see it in this very special format. #FilmedForImax 🎥

Projectionist POV: PROJECT HAIL MARY in IMAX 70mm film. Opening weekend of packed houses loving this film and getting to see it in this very special format. #FilmedForImax 📸🎥

PROJECT HAIL MARY in IMAX 70mm, taken by projectionist Taylor Umphenour. This is what the movies were made for.

Eleven minutes left in Houston-Texas A&M and a massive “Husker Power” chant breaks out. Never change, Husker fans 🌽🏀

@BenBurgis @TheLincoln The hysterical irony over this debate is that the most obnoxious person I ever met in a creative writing class was obsessed with McCarthy. “Child of God” is the best— but I’m southern, so maybe I’m biased. Five years of lit grad school and nobody ever mentioned DFW.

Infinite Jest is a very good book. I guess it's too bad the Cormac McCarthy didn't think so, but also...meh. He wasn't the first or hundredth great writer to have had a few silly opinions about his contemporaries.

@BarneysRubble0 @AmericanGwyn @JoyceCarolOates

Did you know Cormac McCarthy stopped reading new novels after Infinite Jest and referred to @JoyceCarolOates as "the goggle lady?" My definitive takedown of Jest, MFAs, and the coinage of a new term "publishing-inudstrial complex" to explain it all :) unherd.com/2026/03/why-co…

Sure, your eyes aren’t tricking you. That clip looks better than the new trailer, and the reason has nothing to do with talent. The VFX supervisor on Amazing Spider-Man 2 in 2014? Jerome Chen. The VFX supervisor on Brand New Day? Also Jerome Chen. Same person. Completely different system around him. In 2014, Chen had 50 effects artists at Sony Imageworks, the largest VFX crew the studio had ever put on a single project. They handled about 1,000 of the film’s 1,600 VFX shots on a $255 million budget. The crew shot on real film (not digital), on location in actual New York City, scanned Times Square with 36,000 photographs of over 100 billboards, and built physical lighting rigs on set so the CGI would match the real world. Now look at how Marvel makes Spider-Man movies. No Way Home had 2,500 VFX shots spread across 12 studios and about 3,000 artists. The budget was $200 million, $55 million less than TASM2 despite having 56% more VFX shots. Digital Domain, one of the VFX vendors, was delivering final shots days before the December 17, 2021, release. They kept reworking shots into mid-January, after the movie was already in theaters. Zoom out, and the math gets worse. Marvel released 6 films between 2008 and 2012. From 2023 to 2025, they pushed out 7 films and 7 TV shows. The Hollywood union representing VFX workers reported that Marvel pays artists about 20% below industry average and staffs one person where other studios hire three. Artists described 64-hour weeks and breakdowns on the job. Then, in February 2025, Technicolor, the parent company of MPC (three-time Oscar winner for Life of Pi, The Jungle Book, and 1917), collapsed almost overnight. 4,500 jobs gone globally. The studio had been actively working on Disney and Paramount films when the lights went out. Brand New Day has four months before release, and trailers routinely show unfinished shots. But the gap between a 2014 Spider-Man and a 2026 Spider-Man has nothing to do with technology going backwards. The industry has been asked to do three times the work for less money per shot while its biggest studios are going under.

Modern escapism is wishing you were a minimum wage worker in 1995

@Variety Dunesday is a great idea. If they leave it, both will benefit.

Neither #DunePartThree or #AvengersDoomsday — both opening on Dec. 18 — are expected to move release dates: • Exhibitors worry Sony’s “Jumanji 3,” set a week earlier on Dec. 11, will get crushed after its opening • Most assume there’s room for the two behemoths to co-exist given the box office popularity of the Christmas season “We’ve been desperate for all these years for volume,” says exhibitor Chris Randleman of FlixBrewhouse. “Here is volume. It’s the best-case scenario ever.” wp.me/pc8uak-1lH1Vz

We really don’t hate AI enough. This is disgraceful. variety.com/2026/film/news…

I genuinely think watching old movies, reading old books, playing old games, generally stepping outside your comfort zone, is good for your brain and makes you a better person (not exclusively old stuff but not exclusively new either)

I look forward to future generations watching this clip in order to get some sense of how proudly stupid the self-proclaimed Great Men of our time actually were

@AmericanGwyn Politely (but violently) disagree about V.

Worst Books By Our Greatest Writers: 1. The Orchard Keeper, Cormac McCarthy 2. Requiem for a Nun, William Faulkner 3. Across the River and into the Trees, Ernest Hemingway 4. V., Thomas Pynchon 5. Pierre, Herman Melville 6. Dream of Fair to Middling Women, Samuel Beckett