Get into the action with this contest: Win a copy of Robert Rodriguez's The Limit. Did you know they started making movies in VR? I had no idea. It's kind of cool, and also a little intimidating. What if everything goes to VR, and the ...
Virtual reality has the magical ability to take you to an unlimited array of locales, and a display I spotted at the New York Comic-Con initially made the argument that the medium has reached its full potential. Based on the Dwayne Johnson ...
Evil Dead (2013) is one of my favorite movies. Like, seriously, top-three material. The visuals are gruesome and stunning, the performances are strong and unhinged, and it does exactly what a remake should do by honoring the original w...
Sometimes when I sleep, I dream. Most nights it's the one where I'm Leatherface, and I have to chainsaw-fight the Power Rangers in a wrestling ring for SummerSlam. But other, more intimate dreams go a little something like this. Nicolas Cag...
Last year at the Tribeca Film Festival, I was invited to a special preview of a semi-interactive non-movie non-game hybrid called Allumette, which would have its world premiere a few days later. It was a forty-five-minute solo session where...
As Assassin's Creed tries to hype up its December 21st release, it looks like some new technology is being used to sell the movie to you. In this case, it's a virtual reality movie that was shot on-location during the actual movie's product...
The storytelling potential of VR is pretty fascinating, as I noted with Allumette during the Tribeca Film Festival. A virtual headset can give you this unique feeling of immersion that allows you to interact with the story. If used right, t...
Watching Allumette is almost like watching a Pixar movie as an immersive theater experience, but even that description seems to sell the film short. It's difficult to describe VR storytelling without using familiar contexts. VR movies are l...
