• The Quarantine Stream: Ten Years Later, 'The Social Network' Has Become A Supervillain Origin Story

    (Welcome to The Quarantine Stream, a new series where the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching while social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.) The Movie: The Social Network Where You Can Stream It: Netflix The Pitch: "What if we made a movie about Facebook?" Why It's Essential Quarantine Viewing: The Social Network is turning 10-years-old in October, and…

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  • VOTD: The Films Of David Fincher

    Watch a 17-minute video tribute to filmmaker David Fincher. The Films of David Fincher artfully splicing together the director's nine feature films.

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  • /Film Interview: Alex Winter Discusses SXSW Napster Doc 'Downloaded'

    Think about Facebook, iPods, iTunes -- all things you might use every single day. They all have seeds in the "little program that could," called Napster. Co-created by Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker in the late 1990s, the file-sharing service/social network was not only ahead of its time technologically and socially, it completely changed how…

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  • Watch A Brief History Of Movie Title Designs

    As part of the screening put together in relation to the SXSW Title Design Competition, Ian Albinson from the website The Art of the Title Sequence put together a nice two and a half minute compendium of excellent film titles. (That features an occasional piece of television, too.) For any long-time film lover, this little…

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  • Groundbreaking Cinema: 15 Films From 2010 That Challenged & Advanced The Medium

    For an awards show that purports to honor outstanding achievements in film, the Academy Awards seem oddly drawn to the familiar. The movies with the most nominations at this year's Oscar race, for example, are The King's Speech and True Grit -- two films with a great deal of critical acclaim backing them, but ones…

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