Far from making the rest of "Fruitvale" anticlimactic, knowing as a viewer what no one on-screen knows grounds this film in an unmistakable way, giving it a sense of tragic inevitability that grows as the minutes tick away.
In 2010, when Ariela Ross seized the mayorship of Jerusalem's al-Aqsa Mosque on Foursquare — a smartphone app that allows users to broadcast their location to followers with a tap on the screen, known as a "check-in" — the company was eighteen months old.
How? Thanks to the paradigm-shifting creations of zSpace, an educational VR/AR company, students can harmlessly dissect an animal on an interactive screen known as the zSpace 200.
After his sinister turn in Charlie's Angels it seems the man's potential for on-screen mayhem knows no limits - New Line has just signed the 37-year-old to star in a remake of the 1971 horror movie, Willard.
Anyone aware of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? or maybe even 1965's on-screen Darling knows that introducing a party game is trouble, and that's just what Nate does here.
I think if people know who you are... like if Michael Caine walks on screen, everybody knows it's Michael Caine, and they don't realize that he's 130 or whatever.
With the money you can buy furniture for your home or clothing for your on-screen representation, known in the business as an avatar.
Under Mr. Wiebe's precise, almost surgical command, the tubby on-screen character known as Mario, in red hat and overalls, scales ladders, leaps barrels and navigates a construction site as he tries to save a damsel in distress from the game's eponymous ape.
It's Coogler's empathetic talent to be alive to what is happening on-screen, to know how much weight to place on any given moment, and best of all, to understand that the difference between giving things their due (rather than overdoing it) is the key to dramatic impact.
After discussing the scene in detail -- and talking about how happy it made us -- we started thinking about how many on-screen women know the value of a good old-fashioned boogie, even if they don't look all that graceful while they're doing it.
