MovieMaker Magazine

MovieMaker is a U.S. magazine dedicated to the craft and industry of filmmaking, particularly highlighting independent cinema. Established in 1993 by Timothy Rhys, it started as a local publication in Seattle. The magazine is released four times a year and is now headquartered in Santa Monica, California.

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Social Studies Director Lauren Greenfield on How Social Media Shapes Teenage Life

5 days ago | moviemaker.com | Joshua Encinias

“I think social media makes a lot of teens feel like crap, but they don’t know how to stop using it,” says Cooper, one of the teenagers featured in Lauren Greenfield’s docuseries Social Studies, summarizing its thesis. “There’s like this pressure — doing all that you do without flaws. I need a perfect resume. I need a perfect GPA, perfect test scores, perfect body.”She lives in a big house in Brentwood, has good friends, and, at 18, co-hosts a podcast about thriving.
The Life of Chuck Director Mike Flanagan on Horror, Hope, and Lessons from RuPaul

1 week ago | moviemaker.com | Joshua Encinias

The Life of Chuck director Mike Flanagan spent years making movies and working in reality TV before he used a Kickstarter campaign to break through with the low-budget supernatural horror film Absentia in 2011. Its success enabled him to make his long-gestating 2013 hit Oculus, and then many more acclaimed works of horror. But he didn’t just want to scare people.
The Behind the Scenes SNL Stars Who Get Us to 'Live From New York, It's Saturday Night'!

2 weeks ago | moviemaker.com | Tony Maglio

One of Saturday Night Live mastermind Lorne Michaels’ best lines is, “We don’t go on because we’re ready, we go on because it’s 11:30.” But the team that works for him makes sure that the show is as ready as can be. SNL celebrated its landmark 50th season with SNL50: The Homecoming Concert at Radio City Music Hall on Valentine’s Day and the three-hour SNL50: Anniversary Special two days later.
Carnival Films CEO Gareth Neame on Bringing You the Best of 'Very British' Entertainment

2 weeks ago | moviemaker.com | Tony Maglio

Carnival Films has gone global since its phenomenal success with Downtown Abbey: Its sniper-thriller series The Day of the Jackal and air-disaster drama Lockerbie: A Search for Truth are steeped in international intrigue. Both Carnival Films shows are productions of Universal International Studios, a division of Universal Studio Group. But Carnival’s projects remain as British as ever, and that’s by design, says CEO Gareth Neame.
'Reality Isn't Perfect'

2 weeks ago | moviemaker.com | Joshua Encinias

The lighting scheme of Say Nothing follows the emotional arc of the show: When Dolours Price joins the Irish Republican Army in the early 1970s, her motives and morality feel clear — the IRA wants to free their homeland from British rule. But by the formal end of Northern Ireland’s troubles, in 1998, she and her compatriots have done things that place them in a moral gray zone.
12 Movies Doomed by Bad CGI

2 weeks ago | moviemaker.com | Tim Molloy

It’s impossible to watch these movies without noticing the bad CGI (computer generated imagery). The Scorpion King may be the poster child for bad CGI. Arriving in the boom days of terrible, excessive CGI, it’s one of many films of the early 2000s that have not aged well. Stills like the one above are a good indication of why. Shots that could have been practical (meaning, not CGI) were done with pixels for no apparent reason, with often ghastly and comical results.
Pinch Director Uttera Singh Finds Healing in Trauma With Tribeca Debut

3 weeks ago | moviemaker.com | Amber Dowling

It all started with a pinch. Growing up, Uttera Singh always heard the legendary story of her naughty cousin, who pinched people in crowds and started mob fights to get some personal space. The image stuck with Singh, and in 2019 when she was writing a film about an assault and how it impacts a young woman and her community, she knew she’d found a place to use the story.
How Silence of the Lambs Tricks You From the Very First Scene

3 weeks ago | moviemaker.com | Tim Molloy

I recently rewatched Silence of the Lambs, my favorite film, for about the hundredth time. It’s a very tight movie, without a single unnecessary detail, so I was surprised when I noticed something that seemed a little strange — perhaps even amateurish — in the very first scene. Almost as soon as we fade in, a totally unnecessary super — or locator — appears on the screen, telling us we’re in the woods near Quantico, Virginia, the home of the FBI. But why?
Choreographing Ana De Armas' Entry Into the World of John Wick

3 weeks ago | moviemaker.com | Tim Molloy

Director Len Wiseman sees Ballerina as almost the inverse of John Wick: Ana de Armas’ Eve joins the John Wick assasin-verse an aspiring hitwoman rising through the Ruska Roma ranks to acquire the skills required to kill the man who murdered her father.
Andrew DeYoung on

3 weeks ago | moviemaker.com | Tim Molloy

Friendship director Andrew DeYoung doesn’t think it’s hard for men to make friends. He thinks it’s hard for men to keep them. Friendship — DeYoung’s feature debut as a writer-director — stars Tim Robinson as Craig, a lonely suburban dad who is married to the mysterious Tami (Kate Mara), but lonely. He becomes platonically smitten with his cool new neighbor Austin (Paul Rudd), a weatherman who embraces adventure. But Craig’s efforts to impress and imitate Austin lead to a series of crises.