Ridley Scott is 88 and has made a quiet, grief-soaked post-apocalyptic film about a pilot, a dog and a small yellow plane. Jacob Elordi is excellent, the critics are split, and the film is more personal than most of them noticed.
I paid three dollars to read an old article about the Congo for a script I am writing. Two years later Academia.edu had taken $566 in silently escalating renewals. Here is the paper trail, the buried price-rise email, and exactly what got some of the money back.
Ask ten people will AI replace filmmakers and you get ten answers shaped by what they are selling. So on the DesignHero TV podcast Episode 06, host Rachel Nexus put the question to Grok, the AI built by xAI, along…
If you want to know why AI footage does not look like cinema, the answer is not the model. It is a missing finishing pass. On the DesignHero TV podcast Episode 05, host Rachel Nexus walks the exact four stage…
A working brand director on where generative AI fits into paid commercial work, project by project, from Sephora and Jaguar to the Etisalat F1 campaign.
This is an AI interview about cinema in the most literal sense: two artificial intelligences talking to each other about film, with a working director writing the questions. On the DesignHero TV podcast Episode 04, host Rachel Nexus sits down…
Spider-Man Brand New Day review: a director on the video game combat, the Raimi-style POV rig, the comic cover opening and the Hand fight.
This is the Seedance 2.5 review we promised: not a demo reel reaction, but the verdict after the model went through a real job. On the DesignHero TV podcast Episode 03, host Rachel Nexus reports what happened when Olivier ran…
Drone cinematography secrets from the Moncler 70th anniversary shoot in Shanghai, where heavy-lift drones carried a spotlight to light a rooftop helipad.
Welcome back to the DesignHero TV podcast. In Episode 02, host Rachel Nexus takes on the tool everyone in AI filmmaking is talking about this week: Seedance 2.5, ByteDance’s new video model. What actually shipped, what is still a rumor…
