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Sundance 2018 is coming! Looking forward to any films in particular? Here are some of the short films from 2018, online right now: Eye Bags, by Waikwan Ho: Glucose, by Jeron Braxton: Following the sexual misconduct scandals, Sundance has updated its code of conduct: The 2018 festival, which runs from Jan. 18 to 28 in […]

Proud Mary is out this week in the US, but you probably didn’t know that, even though it’s starring Taraji Henson, in a John Wick-esque film. Why do some films generate considerably less buzz than others? Vox examines it: Did you know that a rock ’em sock ’em, shoot-’em-up action flick starring Taraji P. Henson […]

Ireland’s HSE Quit’s “I Will Survive” anti-smoking campaign has been so popular and successful than it’s been imported over to the USA. Via Adweek: “Like real-life quitters, some people in the ad are in the moment of giving up, others are in a moment of truth around the effect smoking has had on their life. […]

We’re back! It’s been a nice, long holiday break, and we’re getting right back into things. 2017 has been a strange year, hasn’t it? Here’s hoping 2018 will be a great one. Did you guys get up to much over the break? We caught up on some of our to-watch list, including Get Out: Strangely, […]

Happy Holidays from the team at Starship! Season’s greetings, Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy New Year, and all that jazz. It’s been an interesting year. We’ll be back in January, and will leave you with an excerpt from this interesting Guardian article with regards to UK Christmas period advertising, some of which is relevant to […]

BBC has adapted Roald Dahl’s classic Revolting Rhymes into a series of gorgeous animated shorts, which have been nominated for an Oscar. They also previously won top honours at Europe’s first animation awards: The awards, called the Emiles, aspire to honor the diverse range of commercial and independent filmmaking currently being produced across Europe. Awards […]

Disney/Pixar’s Lou, a short that showed before this year’s Cars 3, is unsurprisingly in the running for an Oscar Animated Short. Via Indiewire: After the photo-real wonders of its Oscar-winning “Piper,” Pixar tackled a more abstract animation challenge in its latest short about schoolyard bullying. In “Lou,” which plays in front of “Cars 3,” a […]

Cyberpunk classic Altered Carbon has been adapted for tv by Netflix, and the trailers are out! Set over 300 years in a future where death has become trivial. Via the Verge: Netflix debuted a new trailer for its upcoming cyberpunk show, Altered Carbon, introducing the main story for the show: after he’s murdered, Earth’s richest […]

No Jail Time – New York Times reports on the increasing number of American lawyers turned videographers creating documentaries on behalf of their clients, in order to get lighter sentencing from judges. Via the article: Today, however, a growing number of lawyers are creating empathetic biographical mini-documentaries, or “sentencing videos,” to reduce their clients’ prison […]

Hideo Kojima is back with another long, beautiful, highly bizarre trailer for his upcoming game Death Stranding, starring Norman Reedus and Mads Mikkelsen, with a guest(?) appearance by Guillermo del Toro. Del Toro and Mikkelsen aren’t in this trailer. With no gameplay out and not much information about the game, Avclub has an analysis: At […]