You Have Meddled With the Primal Forces of Time, Captain Kirk!
How Movies Work, ScienceAndrew SherwoodBack to the Future, Bones McCoy, Captain Kirk, Deep Space 9, Deep Space Nine, DS9, Game of Thrones, grandfather paradox, Network, Spock, Star Trek, The City on the Edge of Forever, The Great Depression, The Next Generation, TNG, Vox
Being Present
How Movies Work, Tech SupportAndrew SherwoodDavid Bordwell, DSLR, Dune, entertainment industry, First Law of Mentat, Frank Herbert, Los Angeles, photography, realism, sunset, teh interwebs
When You Give Yourself Tangerines...
How Movies WorkAndrew Sherwood2-35, CinemaScope, Duplass Brothers, ensemble staging, iPhone, Karren Karagulian, Kitana Kiki Rodriguez, Mya Taylor, Rope, Russia House, Sean Baker, Sundance, Tangerine, The Incredibles, transgender, Uncanny Valley
Don't Just Stand There, Do Something!
How Movies Work, Tech SupportAndrew Sherwood16:9, 2-35, 4:3, aspect ratio, CinemaScope, David Bordwell, David Robert Mitchell, ensemble staging, Fritz Lang, It Follows, Poetics of Cinema, snakes and funerals, stand and deliver, walk and talk, widescreen
Don't Get Your Hopes Up
Is This The House of Cards You Want To Die On?
How Movies WorkAndrew SherwoodArmando Ianucci, Barack Obama, David Bordwell, Donald Trump, House of Cards, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Katherine Miller, Kevin Spacey, Meredith Blake, Netflix, Patton, Politics, Veep, Vladimir Putin
To Have Your Cake And Measure Its Momentum Too
How Movies Work, Science, WritingAndrew Sherwoodatomic bomb, atomic energy, Copenhagen, Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, Leif Tronstad, Micahel Frayn, Nazi Germany, Niels Bohr, Norse Hydro, nuclear weapons, Occupied, Okkupert, quantum physics, The Heavy Water War, Werner Heisenberg, World War II
I, For One, Welcome Our New Eurasian Overlords
How Movies WorkAndrew Sherwood#onscreentexts, Babel, collaborator, conspiracy theories, Crash, David Bordwell, Let The Right One In, network narrative, Norway, Occupied, oil, Russia
Crossing Hitchcock
How Movies WorkAndrew SherwoodAlfred Hitchcock, Cary Grant, Citizen Kane, David Bordwell, Don Siegel, ensemble staging, Evan Puschak, Every Frame a Painting, Figures Traced in Light, His Girl Friday, James Mason, James Stewart, Martin Landau, Memories of Murder, Nerdwriter, North by Northwest, staging, The Big Steal, The Cross, Tom Helmore, Tony Zhou, Vertigo
Jurassic World
How Movies WorkAndrew SherwoodDavid Bordwell, deinonychus, Dinosaur Renaissance, dinosaurs, John Ostrom, Jurassic Park, Jurassic World, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, tyrannosaurus rex, velociraptor, Vincent D'Onofrio
I Just Wanted To Watch a Movie About Gorillas
How Movies WorkAndrew SherwoodBelgium, documentary, King Leopold, M23 Rebellion, Mélanie Gouby, Orlando von Einsiedel, post colonialism, Soco, The Congo, Virunga
The End
How Movies Work, WritingAndrew SherwoodAdolf Hitler, Alan Moore, Battlestar Galactica, Dune, Frank Herbert, From Hell, How I Met Your Mother, Jack the Ripper, Johann Sebastian Bach, LOST, The Political Thriller, Will & Grace
Dead Mothers In Children's Movies
How Movies Work, WritingAndrew SherwoodA Beautiful Mind, Darth Vader, Disney, How To Train Your Dragon 2, Joseph Campbell, Kung Fu Panda, Madagascar, Pixar, Shrek, Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, The Hero With a Thousand Faces, The Hero's Journey
Nameless, Unreasoned, Unjustified Terror
How Movies WorkAndrew SherwoodArthur Miller, Blueprint for Armageddon, Carl Foreman, Communism, Dan Carlin, Elia Kazan, Franklin Roosevelt, Gary Cooper, Hardcore History, High Noon, Hollywood Blacklist, Japanese Internment, Karina Longworth, On The Waterfront, podcasts, The Blacklist, The Crucible, The Political Thriller, Vladimir Lenin, World War I, You Must Remember This
An Experience In Time
Movies Need to Be More Colorful
How Movies WorkAndrew SherwoodBatman v- Superman, color palette, color scheme, Harley Quinn, Jessica Jones, Justice League, Mad Max: Fury Road, Monsters Inc-, O Brother Where Art Thou, On The Waterfront, Pixar, Ratatouille, Singin' in the Rain, The Wizard of Oz, Warner Brothers
Mad Cutting Rates
How Movies WorkAndrew SherwoodBonus Entry, David Bordwell, Domino, George Miller, Intensified Continuity, Lawrence of Arabia, Mad Max: Fury Road, Rear Window, Resident Evil: Apocalypse, Ridley Scott, Roger Ebert, Taken 3, The A-V- Club, The Bourne Ultimatum, The Fastest Cut: Furious Film Editing, Vashi Neodomansky
Why So Close?
Star Wars Needs To Boldly Go
How Movies WorkAndrew SherwoodDaisy Ridley, Deep Space 9, Enterprise, Fan Fiction, Mary Sue, Poe Dameron, Rey, Star Trek, Star Wars, The Force Awakens, The Next Generation
House of Color Palettes