Dune

Dune

Dune   Fear is the mind-killer,” intones Timothée Chalamet’s Paul Atreides in Dune. The hero must use his mind toovercome his fear. It’s a central theme of Frank Herbert’s novel and one that also resonated with Joe Walker, ACE, who is taking on another...
Cuts We Love – “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”

Cuts We Love – “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”

 Featured in Content:  One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest won five Oscars® including Best Picture, both lead male and female actors and director for Miloš Forman. It also delivered an editing nomination to Richard Chew, ACE; Lynzee Klingman, ACE; and Sheldon Kahn, ACE....
Animation Showcase – 4th Qtr, 2021

Animation Showcase – 4th Qtr, 2021

Animation Showcase – 4th Qtr, 2021   Catherine Apple, ACE, and Jason Hudak teamed on Pixar’s fish-out-of-water coming-of-age tale about a sea monster who lives on the Italian Riviera, written and directed by Enrico Casarosa. Early versions of the film were...

King Richard

King Richard   Sporting dramas are often tales of triumph over adversity but present an editorial challenge when the people featured in them are still alive. The Fighter(2010) tells the story of the fall and rise of boxer Micky Ward. The Battle of  the Sexes (2017)...
Last Night in Soho

Last Night in Soho

Last Night in Soho   Time seems to fall apart in Edgar Wright’s trip back to the 1960s of a neon-lit London. The director’s follow up to Baby Driver had been gestating for a decade but perhaps could not have been made without the techniques evolved with Paul...
No Time to Die

No Time to Die

No Time to Die   For Bond 25 – also the final movie starring Daniel Craig as 007 – producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson signed Cary Fukunaga (True Detective) to direct and Tom Cross, ACE (Whiplash, La La Land) and Elliot Graham, ACE (Milk, Steve Jobs) to...

The Underground Railroad

The Underground Railroad   Having adapted James Baldwin’s novel If Beale Street Could Talk, writer-director-producer Barry Jenkins turned to another literary work by turning a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel into an epic 10-part limited series for Amazon Prime. The...

The Queen’s Gambit

The Queen’s Gambit   Released at the height of the pandemic, in the midst of a brutal election year cycle, Netflix’s breakout hit The Queen’s Gambit gave us a badly needed distraction from the tribulations of 2020. The Cold War-era coming-of-age...

Rick and Morty

Rick and Morty   Lee Harting got his first big break at age 22 on the longest running sitcom in American history, The Simpsons, and he’s been busy ever since, most recently with another animated series, Rick and Morty, for which he won the first ACE...