Y'all MacReady For This?
A deep dive into the radical editing choices that connect John Sturges's 1955 masterpiece Bad Day at Black Rock and John Carpenter's 1982 horror classic The Thing.
Splice World
Weekly dispatches from the edit bay exploring the art of making movies through the lens of film editing.
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