Kirsten Dunst

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The Power of the Dog Trailer: Benedict Cumberbatch Plays a Cruel Cowboy in Jane Campion’s Return

Netflix has released the first trailer and poster for the Jane Campion Western The Power of the Dog, a Western…

3 years ago
  • Cinematography

Eye Piece: Mirrors, Neon Signs and Other Lighting Tricks Create Disorientation in DP Peter Flinckenberg’s Woodshock

I was not familiar with Kate and Laura Mulleavy’s impressive career in fashion, but from the first minutes of our…

7 years ago
  • Other

Impressions of Depression: Watch How Lars Von Trier Manipulates Cinematic Time to Convey Mental Illness (Video)

Slow motion: For people with clinical depression, it's the human brain's own in-built special effect. A sense of warped, skewed…

7 years ago
  • Winter 2016

Close Encounters: Michael Shannon, Jeff Nichols and Their Big-Canvas Sci-Fi Chase Movie Midnight Special

Michael Shannon is coming off a remarkable year. 2015 saw him in three wildly different fall releases: Peter Sollett’s lesbian…

8 years ago
  • Fall 2015

The End of Your Trope: Three Gendered Horror Conventions and Ideas for Putting Them to Death

When MovieMaker first asked me to write a piece about female tropes in the movies, I misread the email and…

8 years ago
  • Cinematography
  • Interviews

Lighting the Way: Shane Hurlbut’s Illumination Experience Tour

Shane Hurlbut, ASC has worked as director of photography on 19 feature films (such as The Greatest Game Ever Played, Terminator:…

10 years ago
  • Movie News
  • Movie Reviews

10th Anniversary Retrospective: Forgetting Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

On the eve of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind's 10th anniversary, I revisited an old cinematic flame, confirming my…

10 years ago
  • Articles - Screenwriting

The Cat’s Meow: A Classy Story of Classic Hollywood

Steven Peros is an award-winning writer and filmmaker with credits in Film, Television, and Theatre. Ten years of research into a mysterious…

17 years ago