I’ve been growing increasingly alarmed when my peers explain a movie they want to shoot, and they say “I want everything to be handheld.” My first response is always, “Why?” to which they respond with ...

A few weeks ago, I complained that it seemed like I was reviewing “found-footage” movies all the time. Well, this trend doesn’t seem to be going away any time soon. It has embedded itself into the ...

There are some consistently used tropes in moviemaking that just instantly ruin a film and break audience members' suspension of disbelief. With shaky cameras, poor lighting, and incomprehensible ...