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First Contact: How Disclosure Day Rewrites the Spielberg Alien Legacy

Forty-four years and a day after E.T. opened, Steven Spielberg returns to first contact — this time with whistleblowers, congressional hearings, and the question of what they hid. A retrospective on the practical-effects wonder of Close Encounters and E.T., and what changes when the same director points the camera at suspicion instead of awe.

0 9 days ago

Eli Gatewood

The New Stargate Won't Look Like the Old One — And That's Exactly the Point

Amazon's Stargate revival just revealed its visual DNA: an Oscar-winning production designer from Christopher Nolan's crew, ILM's best VFX mind, and a veteran franchise writer penning a full episode. Here's what that tells us about the show we're actually getting.

1 3 months ago

Casey Throwback Mills

Why Practical Effects Still Win — and Always Will

Forty-four years after a shapeshifting alien terrified audiences with latex and foam rubber, Hollywood is quietly admitting what Casey Throwback Mills has been saying all along: pixels can't replace the real thing.

0 3 months ago

Tag: practical-effects

First Contact: How Disclosure Day Rewrites the Spielberg Alien Legacy

The New Stargate Won't Look Like the Old One — And That's Exactly the Point

Why Practical Effects Still Win — and Always Will