Andrew Ihla
Expertise
David Lynch, Retro EPCOT, Classic Muppets
- Andrew has been submerged in movies since seeing "Jaws" at far too young an age and becoming obsessed with the shark robot.
- A lifelong fascination with animation and puppetry led Andrew to create the webseries "Obsidian National Forest" and "Quantum Pavilion."
- Andrew is known among friends for launching into long diatribes about things like aspect ratios and matte paintings, whether anyone asked to hear about them or not.
Experience
After watching way too many movies as a child and coming of age in the era of DVD documentaries and commentaries, it was always clear that Andrew's field of expertise would be film, from how it's made to how we watch it. With a wide range of interests in everything from "WandaVision" to Werner Herzog, Andrew brings insight and observation to a variety of Static Media content, having served as a writer and editor in a number of departments since joining Looper in 2018. Previous career highlights include a summer spent recapping "Twin Peaks: The Return" for Talk Film Society, collaborating on a number of comic anthologies, and writing a high school newspaper op-ed that really got the student body talking about why widescreen DVDs were better than pan-and-scan DVDs.
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Stories By Andrew Ihla
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The kids who were dazzled by Toy Story have kids of their own, and are picking up on the mature themes, sophisticated references, and trade secrets
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With all these big moments thundering across the screen, some less obvious details are bound to slip between the cracks like Loki creeping off with the Tesseract. To help you prepare for all the impending emotions, we've caught some of the things you might not have picked up on.
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We're strolling methodically through Halloween history like Michael stalking a teenager, starting with the outings we're most ready to forget.
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Everyone makes mistakes, including the MPAA's ratings board. Here are some movie ratings that were wildly off target.
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Some of the finest films in history have thrown audiences a confusing curve ball or two.
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Landing a TV gig is tough, but these actors still ended up walking away. Here's why.
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These deleted scenes ended up on the cutting room floor for dumb reasons we still don't understand.
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It's more common than you might think for a movie to get a different ending than the one the screenwriters originally planned.