When it comes to visual effects, the popular refrain over the past few years has been pretty simple: practical effects good, computer-generated effects bad. But the truth is infinitely more interesting, as...
The best visual effects are the ones you never notice
When I call Hendrik Weber to talk about The Triad, his first solo album as Pantha du Prince since 2010’s Black Noise, he’s walking from home from his Hamburg studio with his bandmate Bendik Kjeldsberg....
"We're surrounded by a certain biology that feeds us." Hendrik Weber
The Money Monster trailer gives away far too much of the plot. This is a film about surprise and discovery, and people planning on seeing it shouldn’t watch the ads beforehand. But the trailer doesn’t...
Netflix’s programming landscape has changed a great deal in the year between Grace and Frankie’s first and second seasons. It became one of Netflix’s first original comedies when it premiered in May 2015,...
It's chill and dope
A couple weeks ago, my friend and colleague Bryan Bishop visited Las Vegas for a flashy conference called CinemaCon, where movie studios and theater owners discuss the future of the film industry — a...
Let's all go to the lobby
Daydream, Google's new VR platform set to succeed Cardboard, will run with the next generation of Android smartphones running Android N. Google announced at I/O today that the new VR headset and software...
Eight manufacturers diving into VR with Google
As part of a conversation with the president of the Rockefeller Foundation in New York yesterday afternoon, House of Cards star Robin Wright acknowledged that she'd used her character's popularity as...
"You better pay me or I'm going to go public." Robin Wright
Here's something that could make Google's newly announced Daydream VR pretty epic in scope: IMAX experiences are going to start coming to the platform.
While unveiling Daydream, Android's new virtual...
Literally huge
Accompanying the announcement of its Daydream mobile virtual reality initiative, Google is revealing a few of the experiences that people might have with its new VR headset. This fall, the company hopes to...
Games, streaming video, and VR journalism
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