Here are a bunch of little bites to satisfy your hunger for movie culture:
Oscars Montage of the Day:
Montage master Jacob T. Swinnery has compiled a wonderful showcase of the nine movies nominated for Best Picture this year:
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Cosplay of the Day:
Need some Resident Evil cosplay quick for tonight’s midnight show of The Final Chapter or any other time? Here’s a tutorial for cheap and easy ways to make Alice and zombie dog costumes:
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Movie Comparison of the Day:
Couch Tomato shows us 24 things Star Trek Beyond has in common with Lethal Weapon 3. One is a Star Wars connection:
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Supercut of the Day:
See how similar a lot of bank robbery movies are when they’re edited together in this multipart video from 1LineMovieShorts (via Cinematic Montage Creators):
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Vintage Image of the Day:
Paul Newman, who was born on this day in 1925, sits back with Robert Redford on the set of 1969’s Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid:
Actor in the Spotlight:
With a new xXx movie in theaters, ScreenCrush shares a bunch of biographical trivia about Vin Diesel:
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Filmmaker in Focus:
For Fandor Keyframe in honor of the Sundance Film Festival going on, Philip Brubaker profiles Jim Jarmusch and how cool he is:
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Film History Lesson of the Day:
Filmmaker IQ’s John Hess goes throught the history of the cash-grab “mockbuster” in this primer on the kind of stuff put out by Asylum:
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Art Show of the Day:
This weekend at Gallery 1988 East in Los Angeles, you can find the below piece by Joshua Budich of Deadpool and a chimichanga and more at the Fictional Food 2 show spotlighting edible and drinkable treats from movies and TV (via io9):
Classic Trailer of the Day:
This week is the 40th anniversary of the theatrical release of Barbara Kopple’s Harlan County USA. Watch the original trailer for the Oscar-winning documentary below.