Cinefex magazine is a good place to start for your assignment. Cinefex, a quarterly, is the premier magazine of the visual effects industry.
The LMU library only has Cinefex magazine in print. You can find it on the 2nd floor in the periodicals section under call number TR858.C45. Cinefex covers 3 or 4 recent movies and their techniques in-depth. You can see the movies covered in each issue on the spine of the magazine, and they are listed on this page.
Cinefex maintains a list of upcoming effects films on their website.