Special effects are obviously important for so many movies of various genres, even if they probably shouldn’t be the sole reason you watch a film (with some exceptions… like, maybe Avatar). That makes ...

George Lucas looks at the Death Star. (Sunset Boulevard / Getty) Ever since I read media scholar Julie Turnock’s The Empire of Effects: Industrial Light & Magic and the Rendering of Realism, I haven’t ...

Though they may seem a recent phenomenon, special-effects driven movies have been with us since the dawn of cinema. From the moment filmmakers realized that the camera and the editing room offered the ...

Jeremy has more than 2200 published articles on Collider to his name, and has been writing for the site since February 2022. He's an omnivore when it comes to his movie-watching diet, so will gladly ...