Hollywood's Changing Climate - Orion Magazine
1 day ago · THERE’S A SAYING in Hollywood: “Climate change is a pitch killer.”. It’s based on the perception that entertainment executives aren’t interested in climate stories because they don’t think they’re commercial. Sadly, there seems to be some truth to this belief. A study by USC and Good Energy looked at thirty-seven thousand scripts ...
Homo Sapiens - Orion Magazine
1 day ago · By Kathleen Yale. November 14, 2024. THE ORIGINAL TEST was simple: a chimpanzee, a mirror, and a smudge of red dye. The idea was, if the animal recognized their reflection and tried to remove the mark, they were— ding! —self-aware. Because these early studies associated this recognition with some truly hefty processing (perception of time ...
Some Observations in the Galápagos (and Elsewhere) - Orion ...
1 day ago · Green Screen: On the nature of film. November 14, 2024. THE FILM OPENS IN a bright blue confusion of bubbles and water, a pitching, chopping, frenzied, almost overpowering mass of crazy angles and influxes of light, as if Hokusai’s wave had crashed down over you. The camera turns away from that dazzle and begins gulping up brilliant fish ...
Apocalypse When? - Orion Magazine
1 day ago · The fantasy of redemption in disaster films. By Nicholas Russell. November 14, 2024. AT ONE POINT, between June and August 2019, Las Vegas had been so thoroughly inundated by a swarm of grasshoppers, an estimated thirty metric tons’ worth, that hotel employees on Fremont Street used brooms to scrape masses of insect bodies off property windows.
As Seen on TV - Orion Magazine
1 day ago · The starving survivalists unlock the final truth of the genre: they are dependents on the earth, as we all are, no matter skill, strat-egy, or luck. The intimacy of a shared fate is tinged by the iniquity of one-sided need. It’s a long way from the professional conquerors of …
View Content Advisory - Orion Magazine
1 day ago · View Content Advisory. We ask that, instead of adding your personal opinions about what is right or wrong in a film, you use this feature to help parents make informed viewing decisions by describing the facts of relevant scenes. —IMDb.com (found poem) “Alrighty boys, fun’s over.”. A lemur sings about women moving their bodies.
Setting the Scene - Orion Magazine
1 day ago · Finding the real-life places from favorite film moments.