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Where the Camera Behind Citizen Kane Still Rolls

Steve Gainer’s Everything Cinematography YouTube, 5 episodes Social media suffers no shortage of lifeless movie channels. Yet, Steve Gainer’s Everything Cinematography is a welcome break from anonymous YouTubers endlessly reshuffling the same old talking points. The canon has long since settled. Refreshingly, Gainer focuses not on the movies but on the cameras and the operatorsContinue reading “Where the Camera Behind Citizen Kane Still Rolls”

Lost on a Bloodless Barsoom: How Disney Butchered John Carter

Did Disney’s wildly expensive failure pave the way for a stronger vision of Dune? Many Marvellous Misfires What do The Marvels (2023), Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023), and Cinderella (2025) have in common? Three films. Three franchises. Three expensive Disney flops. Such financial disasters are sadly nothing new to Disney. In 2012,Continue reading “Lost on a Bloodless Barsoom: How Disney Butchered John Carter”