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Action Movies Have Become Sterile Bores, and Need More Human Vision

The Marvel universe has become artistically bankrupt, but a few current action movie directors are pointing the way to saving the genre.
By Olivia Willke

Phil Tippett Looks Back on His 30-Year Journey Making Stop-Motion Magnum Opus ‘Mad God’

The legendary visual effects artist behind 'Jurassic Park' and 'Robocop' has finally completed his life's work, a stop-motion descent into hell. We asked how that went.
By Rafael Motamayor
Dane DeHaan and Cara Delevingne in Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets.

‘Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets’: An Uphill Battle in the Box Office

Luc Besson's latest film faces a difficult weekend at the box office, and poses the question: are special effects alone enough to make a movie successful?
By David Akst
Joel Harlow and Hugh Jackman on the set of Logan.

When Hollywood Needs Monsters and Superheroes, It Calls This Man

By Alanna Martinez
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