Tag: filmmaking

  • Making Apes: How the Makeup in Planet of the Apes Changed Filmmaking Forever

    Making Apes: How the Makeup in Planet of the Apes Changed Filmmaking Forever

    Making Apes begins by looking back at the history of makeup effects in Hollywood, which was revolutionized by Jack Pierce, the person behind Frankenstein (1931) and The Wolf Man (1941)

  • Millennial Woes Done Right

    Millennial Woes Done Right

    A messy millennial in an on-and-off relationship with liminal job prospects has been a saturated archetype since Lena Dunham stretched it to its limit for 5 years in her series Girls. It has been haphazardly recreated in many character study-esque television series and tries to worm its way in as b-plots in coming-of-age films. Occasionally…

  • Whitest Season: Privilege Comes First in ‘Happiest Season’

    Whitest Season: Privilege Comes First in ‘Happiest Season’

    TW: Racism, Ableism / Spoilers Below After years of being plagued with Hallmark’s wonderbread, puritanical, heterosexual holiday fun, it was refreshing to finally have a Christmas movie that is not about a middle-class (though sometimes royalty if you’re lucky enough to be Vanessa Hudgens or Ben Lamb) straight relationship where they overcome an instant hatred…