Awesome Movies

It shocks us that the Academy Awards have only been handing out Oscars for Best Animated Feature since 2001, so this compilation from Burger Fiction is shorter than their others. That said, we demand that Kubo and The Two Strings win the award this year.

A blind man’s faith and family keep him happy and content. One day the tumor that’s been causing his vision loss miraculously shrinks. But his newfound independence and confidence opens up his world in both good and bad ways.

Marvel rings the bell for the hype train with a short interview with the cast and crew of Avengers: Infinity War. The two-part film is the culmination of nearly a decade of after credit-scenes. Seriously though we hope they can make Thanos interesting.

Now You See It uses film noir to point out the strengths of black and white films. The intense contrast and prominence of shadows and silhouettes put the focus on the subject and on shapes, and can be used to imply internal conflict or darkness in a character.

A father takes his family to a desolate hut in the wake of an “unnatural” global threat. When another family asks to camp in with them, the tension inside the house becomes just as dangerous as the horrors outside. Starring Joel Edgerton and Riley Keough. Premieres 8/25/17.

It’s no coincidence that Christopher Nolan hosted Heat‘s 20th anniversary retrospective – he’s a huge fan of fellow director Michael Mann. Glass Distortion compared scenes from Heat and Mann’s other films with ones from The Dark Knight to show Mann’s influence on Nolan.

“Is it you… or is just me?” Kristen Stewart turns in a critically-acclaimed performance in this psychological thriller. Stewart plays a personal shopper for celebrities who’s waiting for a sign from her recently deceased twin brother.

A film inspired by the true story of Percy Fawcett, a British explorer who journeyed deep into the Amazon in search of a lost civilization that he was convinced was way more advanced that his contemporaries would believe. Coincidentally, the film is from Amazon Studios.

In films, the camera’s task if often simple: show us where to look. But filmmakers can also use the camera’s movement to amplify a scene, or even to become the main element of a shot. CineFix looks at a few great examples in their latest video.

With the 2017 Academy Awards just a few weeks away, Burger Fiction enumerated the films that have won the Oscar for Best Cinematography, from 1927’s Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans to 2015’s The Revenant. Check out the full list here.

“Finally, here we have my secret room. Every good-looking mysterious billionaire bachelor has one.” Bruce Wayne and Bruce Wayne…’s roommate Batman give a quick tour of their house. We want to see Arthur Curry’s house next. Or Edward Nygma’s.

(PG-13: Language) “I write people talking in rooms.” Lessons from the Screenplay dissects The Social Network to highlight some of screenwriter Aaron Sorkin’s strengths, and how he and director David Fincher worked together to keep the dialogue-heavy movie engaging.

Director M. Night Shyamalan both raised and ruined his reputation with movies that have twist endings. The Film Theorists’ Frame By Frame looks at three of Shyamalan’s movies to see what he got right, and why it would seem that he forgot those rules down the road.

Gemma Arterton stars in this comedy adaptation of Lissa Evans’ Their Finest Hour and a Half. Set in London during World War II, it’s about a seemingly unqualified film crew led by a female copywriter tasked to create a morale-boosting film about the Miracle of Dunkirk.

A young and promising street artist is being pressured by his father to take over their car shop. His volatile older brother offers him a way to get back at their dad. Lowriders drapes a family drama over the backdrop of car-crazy and multi-ethnic East Los Angeles.

(PG-13) “Soon the Watchmen start getting watched too hard, prompting the emo one to start a Livejournal.” Wisecrack’s alien film critic provides a lighthearted summary of Watchmen and Ozymandias, Rorschach and Dr. Manhattan’s brands of morality.