By Oliver Peters
Whether you’re a guitar nerd or just into rock ‘n roll history, learning what makes our music heroes tick is always entertaining. Music journalist and TV presenter Kylie Olsson started a YouTube channel during the pandemic lockdown, teaching herself how to play guitar and reaching out to famous guitarists that she she knew.
By Randi Altman
Late last month, many of the smartest brains in production and post descended on the Westin Rancho Mirage Golf Resort & Spa in Palm Springs for the annual HPA Tech Retreat. This conference is built for learning and networking; it’s what it does best, and it starts early.
By Brady Betzel
The updated GoPro Hero12 Black introduces a few features that make it a must-buy for very specific professional-level users. I love it when GoPro releases updates to its cameras and software. It’s always a step forward in quality and features while keeping the familiar form factor that has made GoPro the go-to action camera for years.
By Iain Blair
World War II drama Masters of the Air is a nine-episode Apple TV+ limited series that follows the men of the 100th Bomb Group as they conduct perilous bombing raids over Nazi Germany and grapple with the frigid conditions, the lack of oxygen and the sheer terror of combat at 25,000 feet in the air.
Though poignant and beautiful, this wasn’t the documentary the filmmakers originally set out to make. Here we talk with one of the directors, Mia Grimes, about how the film unfolded and the process of making it.
How did you come up with the idea for the short?
My co-director Joe Litzinger discovered a viral YouTube video of Marc Ornstein performing a canoe dancing routine to “Lady in Red” as well as a video of Stephen Colbert poking fun at it.
No one can deny the attraction of “entertainment” wrestling. From WWE to NXT to AEW, there is no shortage of muscular people holding other muscular people above their heads and dropping them to the ground. And there is no shortage of interest in the wrestlers and their journeys to the big leagues.
That is just one aspect of Netflix’s docuseries Wrestlers,
By Randi Altman
Remember when GameStop, the aging brick-and-mortar video game retailer, caused a stir on Wall Street thanks to a stock price run-up that essentially resulted from a pump-and-dump scheme?
Director Craig Gillespie took on this crazy but true story in Dumb Money, which follows Keith Gill (Paul Dano),
By Iain Blair
In her directorial film debut, Past Lives, South Korean-born playwright Celine Song has made a romantic and deceptively simple film that is intensely personal and autobiographical yet universal, with its themes of love, loss and what might have been. Past Lives is broken into three parts spanning countries and decades.
By Brady Betzel
HP has been at the forefront of computer workstations that target M&E for multiple decades. To keep up with the high-pressure workloads, HP offers enterprise-level workstations with components that will run 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. And if they don’t, HP will replace the parts and/or system fast — the 24/7/265 uptime is what makes “workstations” unique when compared to off-the-shelf,
Yoomin Lee is a colorist at Company 3 London, a global company providing post services across feature films, episodic television, commercials, gaming and more. “The freedom to work on all sorts of projects, big or small, is a major thing that attracts talent to work for them,” Lee says.
We reached out to Lee to find out more about how she works and what inspires her.
Securing the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival and clinching five Oscar nominations, Anatomy of a Fall is a gripping family saga unraveling the startling collapse of an ordinary household. Under the helm of Justine Triet, her fourth directorial venture paints a dizzying portrayal of a woman accused of her husband’s murder,
By Randi Altman
Director Gareth Edwards’ The Creator takes place in 2055 and tells the story of a war between the human race and artificial intelligence. It follows Joshua Taylor (John David Washington), a former special forces agent who is recruited to hunt down and kill The Creator, who is building an AI super weapon that takes the form of a child.
By Iain Blair
Lavish, audacious and visually stunning, Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things tells the fantastical story of Bella Baxter (Emma Stone), a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant, daring scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe). The film just won five BAFTAs and scored an impressive 11 Oscar nominations,
Luis Caraza Peimbert is an editor at London Alley, a creative production studio with music and entrepreneurial creativity at its core. Based in Los Angeles, the studio helps brands engage with consumers and make content that resonates, often enlisting the help of the world’s most well-known celebrities and brands. Some of London Alley’s notable artist collaborations include Ariana Grande,
Writer/director Chris Nash’s horror film In a Violent Nature, which screened at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, tracks a ravenous zombie creature as it moves through a secluded forest. Produced by Shudder Films, it’s a twist on typical slasher movies in that the audience walks with the killer, not the victims, and therefore gets an unexpected perspective.
Brandon Kraemer is a technical director at Treatment, which is a creative content design studio that specializes in live music and large scale multi-media experiences.
While his primary role is technical director on larger projects like U2:UV at MSG Sphere, he is also part of the creative team and works in the disciplines of animation,