February, 2026 -

ROB CALLAHAN: Why Government Actions Could Spell Big Trouble for Organized Labor

February 13, 2026

This column was initially conceived of as an examination of the various labor-related initiatives in Project 2025. I’d intended to recap some of the ways the Trump administration attacked the labor movement in its first year, and also to predict some of the assaults unions can anticipate in the second. But as I write this, screens all over the country continue to play on an endless, agonizing loop the frame-by-frame slo-mo cellphone footage of good Samaritans (one of them a member of AFGE Local 3669) suffering extrajudicial execution at the hands of masked secret police on the streets of Minneapolis.

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Cut to Black: Shannon Baker Davis, Editor

February 13, 2026

It’s celebration time! Three times a week in February, The MPEG African American Steering Committee is celebrating its African American […]

How Former Assistant Charlie Greene Moved up to the Big Chair with ‘Is This Thing On?’

February 11, 2026

“I wanted the movie to feel like New York in the late ‘90s.”

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In Memoriam: Don Zimmerman: June 15, 1944 – July 24, 2025

February 11, 2026

Picture editor Don Zimmerman, ACE, had an abundant sense of humor. He had to. Over the course of a career […]

Getting to First Bass: How Love of Music Led to a Sound Career

February 11, 2026

During Christmas 1991, I got my first bass guitar — a Washburn Force ABT in candy-apple red — and started taking lessons at the local music shop. There, I made friends who became my first bandmates.

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Ben Baudhuin Talks Editing on Blumhouse Thriller ‘Drop’

February 11, 2026

by Jack Giroux Ben Baudhuin is always asking himself, “Is it satisfying? Is it entertaining?” The editor’s collaborations with […]

Cut to Black: Saleem Aziz – Editor

February 11, 2026

It’s celebration time! Three times a week in February, The MPEG African American Steering Committee is celebrating its African American […]

WHAT OUR MEMBERS DO: Melanie Escano, Assistant Editor

February 10, 2026

I’m an assistant editor on “Chicago Med.” I process dailies, organize and mark scenes, add in temporary sound effects, mock up simple visual effects, score temporary music, export producer/studio cuts for review, troubleshoot technical issues, turn over the locked show for sound, music, and color departments — and my editor, Dorian Harris, ACE, gives me scenes to cut.

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Fun Junk: How Billy Wilder and Gloria Swanson Made a Showbiz Classic With ‘Sunset Boulevard’

February 10, 2026

“‘Sunset Boulevard’ is what my wife would call, and I would agree with her, fun junk,” Woody Allen once said. “You know, it’s great fun, but it’s a junky and silly movie.”

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Fun and ‘Games’: How a David Mamet Thriller Cast its Spell

February 10, 2026

The “House of Games” big twist hit me like a left hook — and that was just at the end of the first act. Its world, a stripped-down modern-noir dreamscape, cast a kind of mysterious spell. And the language? It was Mamet operating at his peak. I mean, c’mon.

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