Now You See It

In this installment, I analyze not a movie, not a TV show, but a viral dance video: Casey Frey's "Get tf out my way type way." This seemingly simple viral video deserves close inspection because of its masterful editing, camerawork, and storytelling. I'm surprised nobody else has analyzed it in detail before.

In Aliens, James Cameron drastically changed Ripley's character, and what he did reveals quite a bit about his film-making style, his thoughts on gender, and even the contrasting style of Ridley Scott, the director of the first Alien.

Nathan Fielder's character on Nathan For You seems too strange to be real, and yet, he keeps up that performance in interviews and on social media. So, where does the acting end and reality begin? The search for the answer reveals a lot about Nathan Fielder and modern entertainment, and it also reveals something about you.

Original Title: Indiana Jones and the Lost Transcript In 1978, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and Larry Kasdan met to discuss a movie idea. That conversation was recorded and transcribed. Here’s what they said.

How do you make sitting alone inside of a room cinematic? It sounds impossible, but in Bo Burnham's latest special "Inside," he did exactly that. Let's look at his experimentation with lighting, lyricism, and the digital world to see how he pulled it off.

There are countless movies about countless topics, but there is one thing that they all have in common. Let's take a look at some classics to explore the obvious yet overlooked similarity between them all.

Internet videos are criminally under-appreciated. There's just as much passion in some five-minute viral hits as there is in some big-budget movies. Let's give weird Internet videos credit where credit is due and explore the cinematic artistry beneath their surface.

The art, the cuisine, the romance. It seems like Americans can't get enough of France. But America's obsession is much more complicated than the simple appreciation of the finer things. Let's take a look at American movies and TV and see how America's obsession with France leads to hopeless copycats and, sometimes, animosity.