Special effects
Netflix scoops up Game of Thrones visual effects whiz Scanline
US streaming service says it will let new Canadian subsidiary work for a variety of clients
Mark Sweney
22, Nov, 2021 @6:00 PM
'I can count the senior women on both hands': VFX's gender problem
It’s a booming industry encompassing tech and art, and where training is readily available. So why aren’t more women working in visual effects?
Helena Pozniak
19, Feb, 2021 @6:59 AM
Ray Harryhausen's art raid: where the effects genius found his terrifying monsters
From his sword-swinging skeletons to a horn-headed cyclops, a new show reveals how the gruesome godfather of special effects plundered antiquity for ideas – and his own art collection
Jonathan Jones
22, Oct, 2020 @1:26 PM
Is this the future of film? How to finish a shoot when the coronavirus strikes
When the pandemic halted his war thriller, Timur Bekmambetov popped his leading actor inside a video game and completed the shoot from 1,200km away. Will movies now have to be made this way?
Phil Hoad
31, Mar, 2020 @11:20 AM
'Of course Marvel is cinema!' Why the Scorsese backlash is justified
Kevin Smith, Taika Waititi and James Gunn reject veteran film-maker’s dismissal of superhero movies as ‘theme park’ fare – while his output exposes a debt to spectacle and innovation
Ben Child
17, Oct, 2019 @11:32 AM
How we made A Nightmare on Elm Street
‘The character has never left me. If I’m stuck in traffic in LA, I’ll do the Freddy voice and shout: “Get out of my way!”’
Interviews by Thomas Hobbs
23, Sep, 2019 @10:43 AM
'It's ghost slavery': the troubling world of pop holograms
Dead stars from Whitney Houston to Maria Callas are going on tour again. As Miley Cyrus explores the issue in a new Black Mirror, we uncover the greatest identity crisis in music today
Owen Myers
01, Jun, 2019 @8:00 AM
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker – what we learned from the Vanity Fair special
JJ Abrams and co have hinted the finale will involve less CGI, more new characters … and screen time for Carrie Fisher
Luke Holland
23, May, 2019 @3:18 PM
Weatherwatch: no business like fake snow business
Classic Hollywood snow scenes aren’t what they seem – the snow could be made of anything from cornflakes to asbestos
David Hambling
18, Jan, 2019 @9:30 PM
Jordan Wolfson: 'This is real abuse – not a simulation'
Creepy and vengeful, Wolfson’s puppet boy is violently smashed to the floor at Tate Modern – then threatens to fight back. But is the controversial US artist just yanking our chain?
Stuart Jeffries
03, May, 2018 @5:00 AM
Through the looking glass: the Alice exhibition taking crowds down a rabbit hole
Designed by Anna Tregloan, the exhibition has creative and immersive rooms that house more than 300 objects
Steph Harmon
15, Apr, 2018 @6:00 PM
'The stench of it stays with everybody': inside the Super Mario Bros movie
In 1993, the makers of The Killing Fields and Chariots of Fire bought the film rights to the world’s biggest video game. The result was a commercial disaster. But that’s only part of the story
Keith Stuart
22, Mar, 2018 @12:00 AM
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