Digital studio Reel FX, Dallas/Santa Monica, has added editor Chris Collins who’s cut spots for such clients as Jeep, Ram, GameStop, Hasbro, T.G.I. Fridays, Salvation Army and Tostitos. His recent editing endeavors include collaborations with The Richards Group, Moroch, D3 and Mary Kay.
Michigan native Collins studied Film at Full Sail University but discovered his passion for editing in his teen years by shooting and editing videos for his high school’s news program while simultaneously joining forces with neighborhood kids to create video montages from gaming highlights. After attaining a B.A. in Film, he landed an assistant editor position for Renaissance Television and Film, and then for 3008. Throughout his time as an assistant editor, he collaborated with premium agencies on major projects including multiple Super Bowl Ads and international productions in Vancouver and Barcelona. In the midst of many editing endeavors, Collins also served as voiceover talent in spots for Jeep, Twin Peaks, Caliber Collisions and Funyuns. After two short years, Collins was promoted to editor at 3008 where he worked on a diverse range of branded campaigns.
Review: Writer-Director Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substance”
In its first two hours, "The Substance" is a well-made, entertaining movie. Writer-director Coralie Fargeat treats audiences to a heavy dose of biting social commentary on ageism and sexism in Hollywood, with a spoonful of sugar- and sparkle-doused body horror.
But the film's deliciously unhinged, blood-soaked and inevitably polarizing third act is what makes it unforgettable.
What begins as a dread-inducing but still relatively palatable sci-fi flick spirals deeper into absurdism and violence, eventually erupting — quite literally — into a full-blown monster movie. Let the viewer decide who the monster is.
Fargeat — who won best screenplay at this year's Cannes Film Festival — has been vocal about her reverence for "The Fly" director David Cronenberg, and fans of the godfather of body horror will see his unmistakable influence. But "The Substance" is also wholly unique and benefits from Fargeat's perspective, which, according to the French filmmaker, has involved extensive grappling with her own relationship to her body and society's scrutiny.
"The Substance" tells the story of Elisabeth Sparkle, a famed aerobics instructor with a televised show, played by a powerfully vulnerable Demi Moore. Sparkle is fired on her 50th birthday by a ruthless executive — a perfectly cast Dennis Quaid, who nails sleazy and gross.
Feeling rejected by a town that once loved her and despairing over her bygone star power, Sparkle learns from a handsome young nurse about a black-market drug that promises to create a "younger, more beautiful, more perfect" version of its user. Though she initially tosses the phone number in the trash, she soon fishes it out in a desperate panic and places an order.
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