By Iain Blair
Lavish, audacious and visually stunning, Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things tells the fantastical story of Bella Baxter (Emma Stone), a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant, daring scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe). The film just won five BAFTAs and scored an impressive 11 Oscar nominations,
By Iain Blair
Editor Kevin Tent, ACE, has had a long and fruitful collaboration with director Alexander Payne. Their first film together was 1995’s Citizen Ruth, and he’s edited all of Payne’s films since, including the Oscar-nominated Sideways. Tent earned his first Academy Award nod for his work on The Descendants.
By Iain Blair
Nominated for five Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Lead Actor, American Fiction is writer Cord Jefferson’s impressive directorial debut. It’s a dramedy satire that stars Jeffrey Wright as Monk, an erudite and frustrated novelist who’s fed up with the establishment profiting from stereotypical “Black” entertainment that relies on tired and offensive tropes.
By Iain Blair
Swedish cinematographer Linus Sandgren, ASC, has multiple award noms and wins under his belt, including an Oscar for his work on the retro-glamorous musical La La Land. His new film, Saltburn, couldn’t be more different.
Written and directed by Emerald Fennell,
By Iain Blair
David Fincher’s The Killer is a violent thriller starring Michael Fassbender as an unnamed hitman whose carefully constructed life begins to fall apart after a botched hit. Despite his mantra to always remain detached and methodical in his work, he lets it become personal after assassins brutally attack his girlfriend,
By Luke Harper
Dune, Mad Max: Fury Road, Blade Runner 2049 and over 125 more films. Six Oscar nominations and two wins. Educator. Musician. Formosa supervising sound editor/sound designer/re-recording mixer Mark Mangini is pretty much a Renaissance man of audio.
As an audio post pro myself,
By Iain Blair
Writer/director Todd Haynes, who was Oscar-nominated for his ‘50s romantic drama Far from Heaven, has always been drawn to classic melodrama and period pieces that examine provocative issues. His new film, May December, tells the story of a shocking affair between 36-year-old Gracie (Julianne Moore) and 13-year-old Joe (Charles Melton).
By Iain Blair
Director/producer Francis Lawrence saw his career go turbo-charged when he directed the last three of the four Hunger Game films and helped steer the sci-fi dystopian series into the record books as one of the most successful franchises of all time.
Now Lawrence has returned to the franchise with The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes,
By Iain Blair
Created by Steve Martin and showrunner John Hoffman, Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building stars Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez as three New Yorkers with a shared interest in true crime podcasts. They become friends while investigating suspicious deaths in their affluent Upper West Side apartment building and producing their own podcast about the cases.
By Iain Blair
Helmed by Greta Gerwig, co-written by Noah Baumbach (Marriage Story) and starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, Barbie is a celebration of girl power that effortlessly manages to combine romance, sharp satire, stylish musical numbers, wacky car chases and warm-hearted comedy – all tied up with a big pink bow.
By Iain Blair
The Last of Us, HBO’s series based on the videogame of the same name, is full of violence and zombies created by a parasitic fungus. And, like the game, it’s an intimate character study that tells the story of Joel (Pedro Pascal), a smuggler, who has to protect and escort Ellie (Bella Ramsey),
By Iain Blair
Directed by Christopher Nolan, and based on the novel “American Prometheus,” Oppenheimer tells the story of theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer and follows the work of his team of scientists during the Manhattan Project, leading to the development of the atomic bomb. It stars Cillian Murphy as Oppenheimer.
By Iain Blair
The Netflix limited series Beef tells the story of two Los Angeles residents from opposite ends of the economic and social spectrum. Danny (Steven Yeun) is a struggling contractor living in gritty Koreatown and Amy (Ali Wong) is a successful lifestyle guru living in the wealthy suburb of Calabasas.
By Iain Blair
Paris Barclay is one of television’s most successful and honored directors. A two-time Emmy Award winner, he’s directed nearly 200 episodes of television, including such series as The West Wing, ER, Glee, CSI, The Shield, Scandal and NYPD Blue. He received his ninth Emmy nomination for an episode of the Netflix show Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.
By Iain Blair
Directed by James Mangold, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny is the long-awaited final chapter in the beloved saga, which stars Harrison Ford reprising his role as the whip-smart archaeologist one last time.
Featuring huge set pieces showcasing spectacular VFX – including the opening train sequence,
By Iain Blair
When the first Mission: Impossible film starring Tom Cruise came out in 1996, it began a tradition of bringing on a new A-list director for each movie — Brian De Palma was followed by John Woo, J.J. Abrams and Brad Bird. This changed after Christopher McQuarrie directed 2015’s Rogue Nation.