Another chance to read Serge Golikov's excellent article on the the often-confusing matter of aspect ratios, letterboxing, and pillarboxing, giving RedShark readers a lesson of cinematic rectangles ...

Here’s an instance from an old VHS tape of “Advise and Consent, “one of the most daring American widescreen films. The slightly fatter faces are due to the distortion of the CRT monitor I shot from.

The aspect ratio of a film is the ratio of its width to its height. In layman’s terms, it defines the size of the black bars you see on the screen when watching a film. It may seem like a technicality ...

Gregory Lawrence (aka Greg Smith) is a writer, director, performer, songwriter, and comedian. He's an associate editor for Collider and has written for Shudder, CBS, Paste Magazine, Guff, Smosh, Obsev ...

Fans are upset that the streaming service has stretched the episodes from their original 4:3 aspect ratio to the widescreen 16:9 aspect ratio. As of its launch day on Nov. 12, Disney+ has nearly 650 ...