A visit to RoboCop’s OCP headquarters
Snapped this picture of Dallas’ City Hall – used as OCP headquarters in RoboCop with the help of a matte painting – during a recent trip to Texas. Though set […]
Short Term 12 cinematographer Brett Pawlak
The title of director Destin Cretton’s Short Term 12 refers to a temporary care facility for adolescents with nowhere else to go. For those kids – and for the staff, […]
Cinematographer Benji Bakshi talks the creature feature Big Ass Spider!
Between all the sharnados and sharktopuses (or is it sharktopi?), the schlocky CGI creature feature has become a subgenre embraced almost solely for its charming ineptitude. But Big Ass Spider! […]
Big Bad Wolves cinematographer Giora Bejach
When the duo of writer/directors Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado released the 2010 horror film Rabies, it was heralded as the first fright flick in the history of Israeli cinema. […]
In a World cinematographer Seamus Tierney
Though her resume includes everything from the comedic absurdity of Childrens Hospital to the horror film Black Rock, to moviegoers with a more mainstream studio palette actress Lake Bell is most […]
Gary Archer, maker of cinema’s chompers
From Blade’s fangs to James Franco’s grill to Austin Powers’ not-so-pearly whites, Gary Archer has spent the last twenty years creating some of the movie’s most memorable teeth. An L.A.-based dental technician – […]
Artist Matthew Head’s recreations of classic horror covers
As someone who can barely scribble out a vaguely humanoid stick figure, I was extremely impressed when artist Matthew Head sent me a series of ink drawings he made recreating […]
Black Rock cinematographer Hillary Spera
A trio of estranged friends (Kate Bosworth, Lake Bell and Katie Aselton) retreat to an isolated Maine island from their youth to reconnect. However, their cathartic trip down memory lane […]
