Awesome Movies

The full documentary about VFX studio Rhythm & Hues, which won an Oscar for Life of Pi yet went bankrupt because of Hollywood’s unfair business practices. This is just one chapter of a longer documentary called Hollywood Ending.

With the 86th Academy Awards coming up, YouTube channel alltime10s shares 10 little-known facts about the coveted trophy. Here’s what Walt Disney’s and Edgar Bergen’s special Oscars looked like.

(NSFW, Spoilers) The trailer for Grounded: Making The Last of Us, a feature-length documentary about how developer Naughty Dog made one of the few AAA games to live up to its hype. Watch it for free in 1080p on YouTube.

(NSFW) It seems like Ron Burgundy hasn’t heard of Blu-ray and DVD releases. Because for one week starting 2/28/14, an extended and R-rated version of Anchorman 2 will be shown in theaters, apparently with exactly 763 new jokes.

The award-winning visual effects studio Framestore gives us a behind-the-scenes look at some of the work they did for Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity. Watch and you’ll wonder why the movie isn’t classified as as animated film.

Condition One’s documentary about the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset. Along with its standard releases, Zero Point will also be the first movie to have an interactive 360º 3D version, which can be watched only on the Rift.

This Russian language film tells the story of six soldiers who struggle to hold a strategic building in their city against the attacking Germany army during World War II. On one side of the coin it’s an epic war film, but it’s also a love story.

Jonah Hill dresses up as a goth kid, gets an octopus to the face and says he won’t get hurt but does get hurt in the action-packed trailer for 22 Jump Street. Jefe, you need to work on your impressions Holmes!

Larger prints of the illustrations in Josh Cooley’s pseudo-children’s book Movies R Fun! They’re signed by hand and come in 8.5″ x 11″ and limited edition 13″ x 19″ sizes. The red texts are just online watermarks and won’t be in the prints.

Wes Anderson’s movies are instantly recognizable. Way Too Indie presents interviews with the director as well as related footage that sheds light on his perfectionist and theatrical approach to film making. More here.

(NSFW: Language) Tom Hardy plays a respected construction foreman who mysteriously walks away from the biggest break of his career. The critically-acclaimed film is set entirely within a car and with only Hardy on screen.

Every movie has its share of bloopers, but the folks behind the The LEGO Movie took the time to present their outtakes in LEGO. Watch the cast and crew laugh about botched deliveries, ad-libs and Will Arnett’s age.

The perfect companion to Go the F**k to Sleep, Movies R Fun! features classic scenes from R-rated flicks like Fargo, Alien, The Godfather and Die Hard, illustrated in the style of children’s books. Illustrated by Pixar animator Josh Cooley.

Is this how cinephiles fight? A husband and his wife argue and eventually call it quits using nothing but movie titles for their lines. A few of the titles were shoehorned in, but overall it’s a hilarious skit.

(NSFW: Language) Suricate depicts how some of the most used scenarios in movies would go down in real life, from the dude who’s about to fall off a cliff to the guy who survives because of his bulletproof vest. Part one here.

(SPOILERS) Gravity is a fairly short movie, but if you just want to know enough for water cooler talk, watch Leigh Lahav’s entry for the Jameson Empire Done in 60 Seconds Awards. You’re bound to have a long chat.

A documentary about the Gran Turismo series and its creator – pro racer, game designer and Polyphony Digital CEO Kazunori Yamauchi. The full film is available for free in 1080p on YouTube and Vimeo.

(NSFW) Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a DEA agent leading an elite and tightly knit task force in Sabotage. A cartel comes after the team to get back the money that they seized in a bust, but it seems like one of them stole the cash.

James R. Harris of Design Through Story Telling made an interactive periodic table-style chart of story elements as collected by TV Tropes. The online version links each element to its TV Tropes entry, but you can also buy a print.

The final trailer for Divergent. It’s an adaptation of the first of a trilogy of young adult novels by Veronica Roth, about a girl who refuses to be reduced to a stereotype, upsetting the balance of her strict society.

The recent string of superhero movies are making Screen Junkies’ job a walk in the park. The group’s latest Honest Trailer pokes fun at the many spatial extrusions in Thor: The Dark World, aka The Avengers 2 appetizer.

Jake Gyllenhaal plays an otherwise ordinary man who finds out that there’s someone who looks exactly like him. Or vice-versa. Loosely based on the excellent novel The Double by the late Nobel Prize winner José Saramago.

The primary reason to watch Michael Bay’s Transformers movies, packed in 10 minutes. YouTuber Tunglebrek compiled most of the transformation sequences from the first three movies in one video. Uncompressed copy here.