https://thecineblog.com/tags/practical-fx/ Recent content in Practical FX on The CineBlog Hugo en-US Tue, 02 Jun 2026 13:00:10 -0500 https://thecineblog.com/stories/talk-to-me/ Tue, 01 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://thecineblog.com/stories/talk-to-me/ <p><em>Bref</em>, the old guard of the film industry looks at YouTubers with a mixture of confusion and profound disdain. We see loud teenagers making prank videos and assume they have no discipline for the grueling marathon of feature filmmaking. But Danny and Michael Philippou proved exactly why this arrogance is fatal. With <em>Talk to Me</em>, they didn&rsquo;t just transition from YouTube to a $4.5 million A24 feature; they brought the frantic, fearless energy of the internet and weaponized it within a traditional production structure.</p>