Jacob Oller
Film Editor at The A.V. Club
Film Editor @TheAVClub // Video Game Movie Expert // Southerner in Chicago
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2 days ago |
yahoo.com | Jacob Oller
The biggest difference between Netflix’s slick new thriller Bullet Train Explosion and the 1975 film The Bullet Train that it’s remaking isn’t the reliance on digital effects. It’s not that the new film includes flashy drone shots, or uses actual Shinkansen units (thanks to the support of the East Japan Railway Company) when filming a bullet train that can’t dip below 100 km/h at risk of onboard bombs detonating.
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6 days ago |
avclub.com | Jacob Oller
In Cult Of Criterion, The A.V. Club highlights a new release from The Criterion Collection each month, examining the films entering an increasingly accessible film canon. In March, Sean Baker broke an Academy Award record with Anora, being the first person to win four separate Oscars for the same film.
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6 days ago |
avclub.com | Jacob Oller
Live-action video game movies have been a gamble since Hollywood’s first big swing introduced a pair of humble plumbers to some terrible lizard-people, all a month before Jurassic Park gave audiences dinosaur fever. But a few films that took video games into the realm of flesh and blood never had a chance. That’s not just because for decades—after a few high-profile flops—video game movies were relegated to the filmmaking slums occupied mainly by Uwe Boll and DTV schlocksters.
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6 days ago |
yahoo.com | Jacob Oller
In Cult Of Criterion, The A.V. Club highlights a new release from The Criterion Collection each month, examining the films entering an increasingly accessible film canon. In March, Sean Baker broke an Academy Award record with Anora, being the first person to win four separate Oscars for the same film.
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6 days ago |
yahoo.com | Jacob Oller
Live-action video game movies have been a gamble since Hollywood’s first big swing introduced a pair of humble plumbers to some terrible lizard-people, all a month before Jurassic Park gave audiences dinosaur fever. But a few films that took video games into the realm of flesh and blood never had a chance. That’s not just because for decades—after a few high-profile flops—video game movies were relegated to the filmmaking slums occupied mainly by Uwe Boll and DTV schlocksters.
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