Steven Spielberg has directed and produced several blockbusters that are known for their special effects. But although he’s applied this kind of movie magic to his films, he once felt special effects ...

It’s true, on the most elemental level, that all one really needs to “make a movie” is a camera and a subject to point it at. Since the advent of the motion picture camera, people have been capturing ...

It was all building, of course, on the earth-shaking work done by George Lucas’s Star Wars just the year before. Special effects had always been around, to be sure; anyone who’d seen a Georges Méliès ...

Writer/director/producer Christopher Nolan raised many eyebrows in 2022 when he teased a cinematic recreation of the Manhattan Project's Trinity detonation without a single frame of CG-generated ...

The year is 2023 and this summer saw the release of many massive tent poles with insanely high budgets and an army of visual effects artists working on countless shots. So why do almost all of them ...

Ever had the immersion of a movie be ruined by an awful special effect? You're not alone. Whether they feature outdated ...

It's not every day you see a giant marshmallow man-monster, even in film --"Ghostbusters"' iconic Mister Stay-Puft has ...