For a while now, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2" has looked like a very solid bet for a Best Visual Effects nomination. Though the only nomination for the franchise in the ...
The Visual Effects Society has announced its list of nominees for the organization's 10th annual ceremony, and leading the way wasn't one of the live action blockbusters on the whittled-down slate of 10 advancing Osca...
The Oscar race for Best Visual Effects currently seems to have more rounds of elimination than "American Idol": rarely has a nomination seemed more like the reward. Last month, a longlist of 15 titles was an...
Film franchises are a tricky thing. Hollywood loves to jump on bandwagons, and every time a book series is turned into a "Harry Potter"-sized juggernaut or an old TV show becomes the basis for a megahit like...
For the fifth time in his career, director Steven Spielberg has offered up a drama ("War Horse") and an entertainment ("The Adventures of Tintin") in the same year. But for the first time e...
How bad was 2011? Well, it wasn't god awful, but the HitFix editorial team had no problem coming up with 20 films that deserved the honor of being on a "worst films of the year" list. In fac...
Since I took over the Visual Effects category in our Contenders section, I've been maintaining that there isn't much to say about that particular race until the Academy begins narrowing the field a little -- and after...
The work of Douglas Trumbull on the legacy of visual effects in film is unmistakable, going all the way back to his work on "2001: A Space Odyssey." He had a hand in such groundbreaking films as "Close ...
Last week, I introduced Tech Support for the sixth year at In Contention, though the first here at HitFix. And I find the Best Visual Effects category to be an appropriate place to begin my field-by-field analysis.
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As you may have heard already, this isn't a terrific season for new TV shows. It is, however, a fairly impressive season for disappointing new TV shows. This gallery counts down the 10 Worst New TV Shows of 2011 (with...
