Global Wahrman

draft Generally speaking when I discuss an idea with someone, they invariably say “someone has already done it” with the implication t...

The early 1980s was a particularly good period for independent films. Notable from this period is Chan is Missing (1982) , Repo Man (19...

In this post I am going to argue that a low-budget firm from the 1982 which has been dismissed as some sort of comical misfire is in fact...

Low budget films that transcend their origins generally have something in common, and one of those things is to substitute brilliance for ...

When I was reading about the Enola Gay disaster at the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum, I came across a historian's comme...

[in progress and being revised] The "Perfect" Sequence I believe that there is a small subset of the filmmaking oeuvre, a ...

[or is it "... and I" ?] As part of my Solari Sign simulation , I am working through more of the learning curve on Open GL shad...

As we examine the origin and history of visual effects, from time to time we will come across masterpieces of the art of the opening title...

One of the weird phenomena that surrounds the tremendous "success" of visual effects, is the self-destructive documentary that d...

[This will be one of the many posts that include details about famous effects shots that I have picked up over the years.   It is all anecd...

This is a post about the mystery of the first or original Star Wars (1977)  trailer. I saw this trailer about a year before the movie cam...

This post will showcase two very elegant visual effects shots/sequences in the movie The Bourne Identity (2002) . Sadly none of the cas...