At Tom Savini’s Special Make-Up Effects School in Pennsylvania, it’s not books the students are cracking open, but heads. A veteran of horror movies like ‘Friday the 13th,’ Savini teaches students how to make the disgusting riveting. Matthew Cavnar finds out how the tradition of hand-made special effects is staying current in the digital era. […]
Screenwriters are busy trying to figure out how to tell the story of our current economic collapse as entertainment. The cinematic gold standard for financial movies is still Oliver Stone’s “Wall Street,” from 1987. Matthew Cavnar spoke to some writers struggling to craft a “Wall Street” for our times.