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SXSW Film Review: The Master Cleanse
The perils of purification
"...also help regulate the film’s tone. Instead of slick CGI, The Master Cleanse uses animatronics and puppets that place..."

March 19, 2016 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Gods of Egypt
We already have a strong contender for the worst film of 2016
"...The CGI fakery abounds: fake scorpions, fake pyramids, fake sandstorms, fake..."

March 4, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Zootopia
These animated Disney critters are fun, topical, and inclusive
"...Easily one of Disney’s more imaginative and detail-oriented CGI offerings in a while, Zootopia uses the classic tropes..."

March 4, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

London Has Fallen
This jingoistic blow-’em-up takes no prisoners
"...more match for genuine cinema excitement than a crappy CGI combustion, of which there are far too many. This..."

March 4, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Boy and the Beast
Japanese anime film is a fully immersive experience
"...immersive, albeit dueling, realities. Hosoda employs brief moments of CGI to render Shibuya startlingly lifelike, but it’s Kumatetsu and..."

March 4, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Seeing Is Believing
How Project Syria's VR initiative is building a new generation of global citizens
"...of being in a conflict zone. Lau said, "Through CGI, Nonny's team at Immersive Journalism re-created a street bombing..."

March 4, 2016 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

2016 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Animation
Watch and prepare for your Oscar pool
"...then-4-year-old niece’s coos and babblings. Backgrounded by radiantly depressing CGI, Hertzfeldt’s stick-figure characters – a toddler visits the future..."

Jan. 29, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Greg Abbott, Founding Father
Texas governor wants to rewrite U.S. Constitution
"...There's nothing new in calling for a convention of..."

Jan. 11, 2016 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Steve Davis' Top 10 Films of 2015
"...was the real thing in a summer overcrowded with CGI dinosaurs and Marvel superheroes...."

Jan. 1, 2016 Screens Feature by Steve Davis

In the Heart of the Sea
Ron Howard sets sails with that famous Nantucket whale story
"...team’s spectacular combination of live action and flawless, awe-inspiring CGI creations, chief among them the great, white whale. Watching..."

Dec. 11, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Krampus
This horror-comedy brings a demon to the holiday gathering
"...of the most impressive in years. No (or few) CGI workarounds here: Krampus and his minions, which include murderous..."

Dec. 11, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Victor Frankenstein
This version of the Frankenstein tale is told from Igor's perspective
"...chimpanzee (a terrific melding of practical creature effects and CGI), feels almost like an afterthought. In a throwaway line..."

Nov. 27, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2
As the series ends, we wonder what we'll do without our Katniss catnip
"...increasingly disenfranchised political pawn, and mercifully the late Hoffman’s CGI scenes are kept to a minimum. And while the..."

Nov. 20, 2015 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension
In this final film in the series, found footage causes more trouble
"...around them when anyone looks through the viewfinder. The CGI Toby stalks little Leila, found footage unspools, things go..."

Oct. 30, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Last Witch Hunter
The Last Witch Hunter? Promises, promises.
"...Plague), Diesel gets to chomp down on the too-often CGI scenery and hassle otherwise ordinary, Williamsburg witches for the..."

Oct. 23, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Goosebumps
The ever-popular YA novels spring to life with Jack Black
"...chaos escalates as the creatures proliferate, resulting in a CGI-laden orgy of bogeymen battling one another for screen time..."

Oct. 23, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Fantastic Fest 2015: Assassination Classroom
Japanese students, lots of guns, and an unkillable alien teacher
"...The teacher is a yellow CGI octopus alien who just blew up the moon. The..."

Sept. 26, 2015 Screens Post by Dan Gentile

Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
YA dystopia franchise continues in this sub-par sequel
"...plague and crawling with the zombie-like infected. The superlative CGI work takes the rub off the fact we’ve seen..."

Sept. 18, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Un Gallo con Muchos Huevos
First animated Mexican movie to receive wide release in the States
"...Un Gallo con Muchos Huevos is the first Mexican CGI-animated feature to receive a wide release in El Norte,..."

Sept. 4, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Fantastic Four
Marvel not at this Fox flop
"...to its interdimensional gills with some of the worst CGI since the early days of computer-graphics imaging, and saddled..."

Aug. 14, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Terminator: Genisys
The Governator is back
"...in three of the director’s most action and emotion-laden pre-CGI spectaculars: the stone-cold classic The Terminator, 1986’s relentlessly dark..."

July 3, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Jurassic World
Bigger isn’t necessarily better
"...a few snazzy beasties going for it, and the CGI is light years away from the crumpy-cute brontosauruses of..."

June 12, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

San Andreas
This is how the world ends, not with a bang, but with a guffaw
"...be, which is to say it’s front-loaded with spectacular CGI scenes of everything west of the titular tectonic fault..."

May 29, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mad Max: Fury Road
Glorious action cinema abounds on Fury Road
"...damage aplenty: metal damage, brain damage, and enough practical, non-CGI, vehicular and pyro gags to make Stunt Rock feel..."

May 15, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The AggreGAYtor: May 5
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
"...Some Texan legislators forget that we live in a..."

May 5, 2015 Qmmunity Post by David Estlund

AFS Spotlights Contemporary French Cinema
A weekend of rare films from the Premiers Plans Festival d'Angers
"...that here), and costumed crusaders induce us into a CGI-spectacle-laden coma, the Austin Film Society has cleverly counterattacked with..."

May 1, 2015 Screens Feature by Josh Kupecki

Ex Machina
Smart, sinister sci-fi film about human error and techno-terror
"...of Ava? As conjured by Vikander and a seamless CGI, she’s a sharp-witted and sympathetic modern miracle of mesh..."

April 17, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

White God
This Hungarian film is the Battleship Potemkin of canine mutiny
"...Eschewing CGI, the director coaxes performances from, in some sequences, 280..."

April 10, 2015 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Furious 7
Furiouser and furiouser
"...four-wheeled fury, never-say-die bromance, family-first proselytizing, and enough practical, non-CGI stuntwork – both human and automotive – to make..."

April 3, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The AggreGAYtor: March 26
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
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March 26, 2015 Qmmunity Post by David Estlund

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