https://shotonwhat.com/lenses/zeiss-master-prime The Source for Motion Picture & Television Technical Information Sun, 07 Apr 2024 04:20:43 -0800 en-US hourly 1 https://shotonwhat.com/poor-things-2023 Sun, 15 Sep 2024 10:03:39 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/poor-things-2023
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Cinematographer: Robbie Ryan
An account of the fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter, a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-killing-of-a-sacred-deer-2017 Sat, 07 Sep 2024 14:13:22 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-killing-of-a-sacred-deer-2017
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Cinematographer: Thimios Bakatakis
Steven, a charismatic surgeon, is forced to make an unthinkable sacrifice after his life starts to fall apart, when the behavior of a teenage boy he has taken under his wing turns sinister. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/john-wick-chapter-3-parabellum-2019 Tue, 27 Aug 2024 21:57:38 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/john-wick-chapter-3-parabellum-2019
Director: Chad Stahelski
Cinematographer: Dan Laustsen
John Wick is on the run after killing a member of the international assassins' guild, and with a $14 million price tag on his head, he is the target of hit men and women everywhere. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-kid-detective-2020 Sun, 11 Aug 2024 12:15:45 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-kid-detective-2020
Director: Evan Morgan
Cinematographer: Mike McLaughlin
A once-celebrated kid detective, now 32, continues to solve the same trivial mysteries between hangovers and bouts of self-pity; until a naive client brings him his first 'adult' case to find out who brutally murdered her boyfriend. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/victoria-abdul-2017 Mon, 15 Jul 2024 16:26:53 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/victoria-abdul-2017
Director: Stephen Frears
Cinematographer: Danny Cohen
Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/ad-astra-2019 Wed, 10 Jul 2024 20:32:34 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/ad-astra-2019
Director: James Gray
Cinematographer: Hoyte Van Hoytema
Astronaut Roy McBride undertakes a mission across an unforgiving solar system to uncover the truth about his missing father and his doomed expedition that now, 30 years later, threatens the universe. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/only-the-brave-2017 Mon, 08 Jul 2024 13:55:31 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/only-the-brave-2017
Director: Joseph Kosinski
Cinematographer: Claudio Miranda
Based on the true story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, a group of elite firefighters who risk everything to protect a town from a historic wildfire. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/skyfall-2012 Sat, 06 Jul 2024 14:56:31 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/skyfall-2012
Director: Sam Mendes
Cinematographer: Roger Deakins
Bond's loyalty to M is tested when her past comes back to haunt her. When MI6 comes under attack, 007 must track down and destroy the threat, no matter how personal the cost. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/quantum-of-solace-2008 Sat, 06 Jul 2024 13:32:38 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/quantum-of-solace-2008
Director: Marc Forster
Cinematographer: Roberto Schaefer
James Bond descends into mystery as he tries to stop a mysterious organization from eliminating a country's most valuable resource. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/spectre-2015 Sat, 06 Jul 2024 13:23:23 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/spectre-2015
Director: Sam Mendes
Cinematographer: Hoyte Van Hoytema
A cryptic message from 007's past sends him pitted against a mysterious terrorist organization called Spectre, and learns of its involvement in previous events of his most dangerous missions. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/top-gun-maverick-2022 Mon, 01 Jul 2024 15:01:30 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/top-gun-maverick-2022
Director: Joseph Kosinski
Cinematographer: Claudio Miranda
]]> https://shotonwhat.com/den-of-thieves-2018 Mon, 27 May 2024 16:56:41 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/den-of-thieves-2018
Director: Christian Gudegast
Cinematographer: Terry Stacey
An elite unit of the LA County Sheriff's Dept. and the state's most successful bank robbery crew clash as the outlaws plan a seemingly impossible heist on the Federal Reserve Bank. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/bird-box-2018 Sat, 25 May 2024 13:32:50 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/bird-box-2018
Director: Susanne Bier
Cinematographer: Salvatore Totino
Five years after an ominous unseen presence drives most of society to suicide, a mother and her two children make a desperate bid to reach safety. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-meg-2018 Fri, 24 May 2024 01:59:26 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-meg-2018
Director: Jon Turteltaub
Cinematographer: Tom Stern
A group of scientists exploring the Marianas Trench encounter the largest marine predator that has ever existed - the Megalodon. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/creed-ii-2018 Fri, 24 May 2024 00:40:37 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/creed-ii-2018
Director: Steven Caple Jr.
Cinematographer: Kramer Morgenthau
Under the tutelage of Rocky Balboa, newly crowned heavyweight champion Adonis Creed faces off against Viktor Drago, the son of Ivan Drago. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/overboard-2-2018 Tue, 21 May 2024 04:51:40 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/overboard-2-2018
Director: Rob Greenberg
Cinematographer: Michael Barrett
After a spoiled, wealthy yacht owner is thrown overboard and loses his memory, a mistreated employee convinces him that he is her working-class husband. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/oceans-eight-2018 Sun, 19 May 2024 20:25:17 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/oceans-eight-2018
Director: Gary Ross
Cinematographer: Eigil Bryld
Debbie Ocean gathers an all-female crew to attempt an impossible heist at New York City's annual Met Gala. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/us-2019 Sun, 19 May 2024 19:09:18 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/us-2019
Director: Jordan Peele
Cinematographer: Mike Gioulakis
Adelaide Wilson and her family are attacked by mysterious figures dressed in red. Upon closer inspection, the Wilsons realize that the intruders are exact lookalikes of them. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-shape-of-water-2017 Fri, 10 May 2024 15:07:21 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-shape-of-water-2017
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Cinematographer: Dan Laustsen
At a top secret research facility in the 1960s, a lonely janitor forms a unique relationship with an amphibious creature that is being held in captivity. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/incendies-2010 Fri, 26 Apr 2024 17:35:49 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/incendies-2010
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Cinematographer: André Turpin
Twins journey to the Middle East to discover their family history and fulfill their mother's last wishes. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/hail-caesar-2016 Fri, 26 Apr 2024 01:39:16 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/hail-caesar-2016
Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Cinematographer: Roger Deakins
A Hollywood fixer in the 1950s works to keep the studio's stars in line. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/age-of-heroes-2011 Thu, 25 Apr 2024 01:49:03 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/age-of-heroes-2011
Director: Adrian Vitoria
Cinematographer: Mark Hamilton
The true story of the formation of Ian Fleming's 30 Commando unit, a precursor for the elite forces in the U.K. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/to-leslie-2022 Thu, 18 Apr 2024 02:26:58 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/to-leslie-2022
Director: Michael Morris
Cinematographer: Larkin Seiple
Inspired by true events. A West Texas single mother wins the lottery and squanders it just as fast, leaving behind a world of heartbreak. Years later, with her charm running out and nowhere to go, she fights to rebuild her life an... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/everything-everywhere-all-at-once-2022 Mon, 15 Apr 2024 13:52:38 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/everything-everywhere-all-at-once-2022
Director: Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert
Cinematographer: Larkin Seiple
A middle-aged Chinese immigrant is swept up into an insane adventure in which she alone can save existence by exploring other universes and connecting with the lives she could have led. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/kis-uykusu-2014 Wed, 10 Apr 2024 20:01:39 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/kis-uykusu-2014
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Cinematographer: Gökhan Tiryaki
A hotel owner and landlord in a remote Turkish village deals with conflicts within his family and a tenant behind on his rent. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/rounded-corners-2019 Wed, 10 Apr 2024 16:49:21 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/rounded-corners-2019
Director: Paul Check
A book smart 13-year old girl, raised alone by her Wall Street father, learns about life from her new carefree babysitter over summer vacation. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-revenant-2015 Tue, 09 Apr 2024 22:05:54 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-revenant-2015
Director: Alejandro G. Iñárritu
Cinematographer: Emmanuel Lubezki
A frontiersman on a fur trading expedition in the 1820s fights for survival after being mauled by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/nyad-2023 Sun, 07 Apr 2024 04:20:43 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/nyad-2023
Director: Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
Cinematographer: Claudio Miranda
The remarkable true story of athlete Diana Nyad who, at the age of 60 and with the help of her best friend and coach, commits to achieving her life-long dream: a 110-mile open ocean swim from Cuba to Florida. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/a-beautiful-day-in-the-neighborhood-2019 Sat, 16 Dec 2023 16:39:11 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/a-beautiful-day-in-the-neighborhood-2019
Director: Marielle Heller
Cinematographer: Jody Lee Lipes
Based on the true story of a real-life friendship between Fred Rogers and journalist Lloyd Vogel. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/never-look-away-2018 Fri, 15 Dec 2023 23:03:46 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/never-look-away-2018
Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Cinematographer: Caleb Deschanel
German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR-regime. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/mr-nobody-2009 Sat, 02 Dec 2023 09:10:46 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/mr-nobody-2009
Director: Jaco Van Dormael
Cinematographer: Christophe Beaucarne
A boy stands on a station platform as a train is about to leave. Should he go with his mother or stay with his father? Infinite possibilities arise from this decision. As long as he doesn't choose, anything is possible. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/kick-ass-2-2013 Thu, 30 Nov 2023 02:29:28 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/kick-ass-2-2013
Director: Jeff Wadlow
Cinematographer: Tim Maurice-Jones
Following Kick-Ass' heroics, other citizens are inspired to become masked crusaders, but Red Mist leads his own group of evil super-villains to get revenge, kill Kick-Ass, and destroy everything he stands for. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/blackkklansman-2018 Thu, 23 Nov 2023 02:48:38 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/blackkklansman-2018
Director: Spike Lee
Cinematographer: Chayse Irvin
Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer from Colorado Springs, Colorado, successfully infiltrates the local Ku Klux Klan branch aided by a Jewish surrogate who eventually becomes its leader. Based on actual events. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/a-cure-for-wellness-2016 Thu, 20 Jul 2023 19:34:31 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/a-cure-for-wellness-2016
Director: Gore Verbinski
Cinematographer: Bojan Bazelli
An ambitious young executive is sent to retrieve his company's CEO from an idyllic but mysterious "wellness center" at a remote location in the Swiss Alps, but soon suspects that the spa's treatments are not what they seem. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/edie-2017 Tue, 11 Apr 2023 15:26:29 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/edie-2017
Director: Simon Hunter
Cinematographer: August Jakobsson
83 year old Edie believes that it is never too late - packing an old camping bag, leaving her life behind and embarking on an adventure she never got to have - climbing the imposing Mount Suilven in Scotland. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/knives-out-2019 Thu, 24 Nov 2022 15:11:20 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/knives-out-2019
Director: Rian Johnson
Cinematographer: Steve Yedlin
]]> https://shotonwhat.com/a-hidden-life-2019 Tue, 24 Mar 2020 15:17:14 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/a-hidden-life-2019
Director: Terrence Malick
Cinematographer: Jörg Widmer
The Austrian Franz Jägerstätter, a conscientious objector, refuses to fight for the Nazis in World War II. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/blade-runner-2049-2017 Mon, 24 Feb 2020 10:23:59 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/blade-runner-2049-2017
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Cinematographer: Roger Deakins
A young blade runner's discovery of a long-buried secret leads him to track down former blade runner Rick Deckard, who's been missing for thirty years. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/bahubali-the-beginning-2015 Wed, 13 Nov 2019 20:39:01 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/bahubali-the-beginning-2015
Director: S.S. Rajamouli
Cinematographer: Senthil Kumar
In ancient India, an adventurous and daring man becomes involved in a decades old feud between two warring people. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/white-collar-2009 Wed, 13 Nov 2019 15:07:22 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/white-collar-2009
Director: John T. Kretchmer, Russell Lee Fine, Paul Holahan, Michael Smith, Sanford Bookstaver, Kevin Bray, Dennie Gordon, David Straiton, Jeff King, Tim DeKay, Tricia Brock, Anton Cropper, Stefan Schwartz, Allan Arkush, Timothy Busfield, Bronwen Hughes, Phil Abraham, Ken Girotti, Tim Matheson, Vincent Misiano, Rosemary Rodriguez, Renny Harlin, Andrew McCarthy, Robert Duncan McNeill, Arlene Sanford, Willie Garson, Roger Kumble, Charlotte Sieling, Eric Stoltz, Doug Hannah, Martha Mitchell
Cinematographer: Russell Lee Fine, Robert Gantz, Niels Alpert, Jamie Silverstein, Joel Ransom
A white collar criminal agrees to help the FBI catch other white collar criminals using his expertise as an art and securities thief, counterfeiter, and conman. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/shazam-2019 Mon, 11 Nov 2019 12:00:37 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/shazam-2019
Director: David F. Sandberg
Cinematographer: Maxime Alexandre
We all have a superhero inside us, it just takes a bit of magic to bring it out. In Billy Batson's case, by shouting out one word - SHAZAM - this streetwise fourteen-year-old foster kid can turn into the grown-up superhero Shazam. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-scythian-2018 Mon, 07 Oct 2019 10:32:41 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-scythian-2018
Director: Rustam Mosafir
Cinematographer: Dzmitry Karnachyk
These are times when one civilization is replacing another. A new era is about to begin in Central Eurasia. Scythians, the proud warriors, are all but gone. The few of their descendants ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/bloodline-2015 Tue, 24 Sep 2019 16:07:28 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/bloodline-2015
Director: Mikael Håfström, Todd A. Kessler, Ed Bianchi, Michael Morris, Jean de Segonzac, Johan Renck, Daniel Zelman, Mario Van Peebles, Daniel Attias, Adam Bernstein, Simon Cellan Jones, Tate Donovan, Carl Franklin, Alex Graves, Dennie Gordon, Stephen Williams, Michael Apted, David Manson
Cinematographer: Jaime Reynoso, Darren Lew
A family finds themselves forced to face their past secrets and scars when the black sheep returns home. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/house-of-cards-2-2013 Tue, 24 Sep 2019 15:32:41 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/house-of-cards-2-2013
Director: James Foley, Robin Wright, John David Coles, Alik Sakharov, Carl Franklin, Agnieszka Holland, Tucker Gates, Tom Shankland, Allen Coulter, David Fincher, Charles McDougall, Joel Schumacher, John Dahl, Jakob Verbruggen, Roxann Dawson, Daniel Minahan, Michael Morris, Jodie Foster, Alex Graves, Kari Skogland, Ernest R. Dickerson, Louise Friedberg, Ami Canaan Mann, Stacie Passon, Thomas Schlamme
Cinematographer: David M. Dunlap, Igor Martinovic, Eigil Bryld, Peter Konczal, Martin Ahlgren, Tim Norman, Paul Elliott, Tim Ives
A Congressman works with his equally conniving wife to exact revenge on the people who betrayed him. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/3-idiots-2009 Tue, 17 Sep 2019 17:25:22 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/3-idiots-2009
Director: Rajkumar Hirani
Cinematographer: C.K. Muraleedharan
Two friends are searching for their long lost companion. They revisit their college days and recall the memories of their friend who inspired them to think differently, even as the rest of the world called them "idiots". ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/shanghai-2-2012 Mon, 09 Sep 2019 21:21:18 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/shanghai-2-2012
Director: Dibakar Banerjee
Cinematographer: Nikos Andritsakis
Prime leader of a campaign against a big government project is killed in what appears to be a road accident. An IAS officer is ordered to probe the incident and the veils of falsehood begin to drop. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/cloud-atlas-2012 Mon, 26 Aug 2019 13:31:10 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/cloud-atlas-2012
Director: Tom Tykwer, Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski
Cinematographer: Frank Griebe, John Toll
An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-ballad-of-buster-scruggs-2018 Sun, 25 Aug 2019 18:19:05 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-ballad-of-buster-scruggs-2018
Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Cinematographer: Bruno Delbonnel
Six tales of life and violence in the Old West, following a singing gunslinger, a bank robber, a traveling impresario, an elderly prospector, a wagon train, and a perverse pair of bounty hunters. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-girl-in-the-spiders-web-2018 Thu, 25 Jul 2019 12:58:55 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-girl-in-the-spiders-web-2018
Director: Fede Alvarez
Cinematographer: Pedro Luque
Young computer hacker Lisbeth Salander and journalist Mikael Blomkvist find themselves caught in a web of spies, cybercriminals and corrupt government officials. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-vampire-diaries-2009 Wed, 17 Jul 2019 07:07:19 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-vampire-diaries-2009
Director: Chris Grismer, Joshua Butler, Michael A. Allowitz, Marcos Siega, Pascal Verschooris, Kellie Cyrus, J. Miller Tobin, John Behring, Jeffrey G. Hunt, Rob Hardy, Lance Anderson, Leslie Libman, Paul Wesley, John Dahl, Wendey Stanzler, Jesse Warn, Darren Genet, David Von Ancken, Liz Friedlander, Garreth Stover, Julie Plec, Geoffrey Wing Shotz, Ian Somerhalder, Kevin Bray, Tony Solomons, Michael Karasick, Rick Bota, Ernest R. Dickerson, Guy Ferland, David Barrett, Charles Beeson, Ralph Hemecker, Patrick R. Norris, Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum, Dennis Smith, Jeff Woolnough, David Jackson, Michael Katleman, Paul M. Sommers, Darnell Martin, Brad Turner, Deborah Chow, Rashaad Ernesto Green, Tanya Hamilton, James L. Thompson III, Carol Banker
Cinematographer: Paul M. Sommers, Dave Perkal, Darren Genet, Michael Karasick, Star Barry, Ramsey Nickell, Michael Negrin, John Peters
The lives, loves, dangers and disasters in the town, Mystic Falls, Virginia. Creatures of unspeakable horror lurk beneath this town as a teenage girl is suddenly torn between two vampire brothers. ]]>