About a year ago, Hollywood effects guy Steve Johnson attracted attention by starting up a YouTube channel where he chatted about the various movies he'd worked on where he'd been involved with makeup or visual effects. It got press on movie blogs and websites, and it seemed like a neat idea: hear from someone who doesn't necessarily get a voice on DVD documentaries and behind-the-scenes featurettes. Cut to 2011, and Steve has started offering DVDs of the interviews on his website, including "Get Slimed!", a look at the creation of Slimer from Ghostbusters.

Steve seems like a nice dude (his personality and appearance suggest the Robert Downey Jr. of the visual effects world), but the flipside of the issue is that although Steve has stories to tell that studios won't necessarily put on the DVD or Blu-Ray, that's really the...Read the entire review