Damon Wise

3 days ago | deadline.com | Damon Wise

Everything outside may be going to hell, but Sunny Side of the Doc might be the non-fiction world's only real happy place right now. Currently in its 35 th year, the event is a testament to the resilience of documentary filmmaking, both in its ongoing support for reality-based storytelling in all its many forms but also its appreciation for the kind of support network that's sorely lacking from feature film production.

1 week ago | deadline.com | Damon Wise

Now/then, now/then... The past and the present exist in perpetual tension in the gory second sequel to Danny Boyle 's zombie horror franchise. "Time didn't heal anything," goes the tagline, and as we learned from the recent pandemic, mankind isn't always prepared for the worst. By far the most political of the three films, 28 Years Later is particularly scathing about Brexit Britain and its little-islander mentality.

1 week ago | deadline.com | Damon Wise

The latest animation from Pixar has been in the pipe for quite some time, and while that's not so strange for such a labor-intensive production, it's telling that the finished version bears little resemblance, story-wise, to the film promised by the trailer released in 2023.

1 week ago | deadline.com | Damon Wise

F1: The Movie starts, ominously enough, with the black Warners logo, which suggests it's going the be The Dark Knight Rises of sports movies. But although it never really relaxes into the fun, '60s-style Paul Newman picture it might have been, F1 never takes itself too seriously.

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Damon Wise

NowThe Switch 2 supports HDR, at least in theory. Where older tech leans on extremes, HDR captures the gradients between extremes better, which creates vivid colors while also ensuring that brighter and darker portions of the image don’t lose finer details. The reality, however, is that the settings …