Avery T. Phillips breaks down the five simple steps to making military films as realistic as possible and why that’s the best thing for them. If you write a military script or embark on the production of a military film, it helps to know what you’re doing. There will be people watching who know what […]

From the beaches of Normandy to the plains of Africa, Avery T. Phillips counts off the most realistic combat scenes in movies. Throughout all the movies we’ve watched over the years, there have been some amazing fighting scenes — and some that made us question what the directors and producers were thinking during the production […]

Avery T. Phillips talks about how our portrayal of tech on the silver screen has evolved over the past few decades and how it’s shaped our view of our lives. Science fiction has been a beloved genre for decades, but it doesn’t always age well. For instance, when the original Blade Runner hit the box […]

Avery T. Phillips lists five prime examples of the changing faces of marriage, love and courtship on film over the past twenty years. Every cinephile loves a good love story. Countless films feature a love story as its central plot, whether that romance has a happy ending, a tragic one (a la West Side Story), […]