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Sarah’s 5 Most Anticipated films of NYFF 2015
As a first time attendee of the New York Film Festival, it’s difficult not to be overwhelmed by this year’s selection of films. I’ve been mentally preparing for the slew of world premieres and other festival favorites that will surely play a crucial part in the upcoming awards season. I’ve never attended a film festival […] More
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Tom Hanks is the standing man in second ‘Bridge of Spies’ trailer
More Oscar-worthiness, it seems. The second trailer for director Steven Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies dropped on Thursday, offering another look at the famous director’s first work since Lincoln. The film stars Tom Hanks, Amy Ryan, and Alan Alda. In the film, Hanks plays an American lawyer who is recruited by the CIA during the Cold […] More
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Steven Spielberg claims that the superhero movie fad won’t last
Steven Spielberg is no stranger to huge blockbuster films, and is one of the directors who in fact started the trend. But he has never dipped his toes into the incredible money-making fad that is the superhero film franchise. And judging by his recent comments, that’s not going to happen anytime soon. In a talk […] More
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The new nostalgia: Releasing multiple updated versions of childhood memories
In the modern era of filmmaking, ushered in when Steven Spielberg accidentally created the summer blockbuster with Jaws, cinema has become increasingly linked with nostalgia. For example, the early films of Spielberg and George Lucas were inspired by their childhood love of 40’s and 50’s adventure serials, yet directors from the next generation (most notably […] More
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Reflections of Evil: Steven Spielberg’s paranoia and conspiracy theories
There are few real-life figures more beloved in American cinema than Steven Spielberg. He’s earned that adoration without question, but his worship retards the dialogue around his work. Like his buddy Colonel G. Lucas, Spielberg is a brand first, a businessman second, and a filmmaker last. It’s time to loosen up the conversation. Spielberg is […] More
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‘The Lost World: Jurassic Park’ is a mixed bag of chills and cringes
Few movies lend themselves to franchising as unnaturally as 1993’s blockbuster Jurassic Park.
The story’s theme of man suffering the consequences of using science to flout nature inherently involves the creation of a wondrous world—“Jurassic Park”, a theme park where dinosaurs were brought back from extinction to be gawked at by tourists—and then the destruction of that world. But record setting book sales and box office created the market, and Michael Crichton started to work on the first book of his that was written primarily to adapt into a movie. More
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‘Jurassic Park’ holds up as well today as it did in 1993
“What have they got in there, King Kong”, quips Dr. Ian Malcolm as a computer-driven Land Cruiser slides along its railed path through a massive wooden gate that is designed to look prehistoric, welcoming them to “Jurassic Park”. Billionaire John Hammond has done the impossible and brought dinosaurs back from extinction—then built a park around them as cheesy as any zoo attraction or Disney theme park. More
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Watch the trailer for Steven Spielberg’s ‘Bridge of Spies’ with Tom Hanks
Steven Spielberg’s first film since 2012’s Lincoln, the legendary director is now jumping from the Civil War to the Cold War with his latest, a thriller called Bridge of Spies. The first trailer for the highly anticipated film stars a noble looking Tom Hanks as James Donovan, an insurance lawyer tasked with negotiating the trade between […] More
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‘Selma’ star was asked to reprise his role for Steven Spielberg
When Steven Spielberg asks you to reprise a role, do you say no? That is the question being posed to David Oyelowo, who recently revealed that the famous director is interested in having him play Martin Luther King Jr. again. The actor portrayed him in last year’s Selma. In an interview with Esquire, Oyelowo revealed […] More
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‘Jaws’ will terrorize theaters again for its 40th anniversary this summer
“We’re gonna need a bigger boat.” Easily one of the most recognizable films of all-time, Jaws will be coming back to theaters this summer for special screenings to commemorate the movie’s 40th anniversary. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Fathom Events will screen Jaws on Sunday, June 21 and Wednesday, June 24 at 2:00 p.m. and […] More
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The original ‘Poltergeist’ successfully blends horror and family melodrama
The original 1982 Poltergeist, directed by Tobe Hooper, opens with an apt image: an extreme close-up of a television set. Not only does the object prove pivotal to the film’s narrative, but the close proximity of the camera to the screen imbues the television with a strange, almost alien quality. Though it simply plays the national anthem over patriotic imagery, the signature sign-off for most TV stations in the 1980s, the close-up distorts the pictures and renders them wholly indeterminable. For a film that explores the dark unknowns that lie beneath the seemingly innocent and ordinary, Poltergeist certainly knows how to prime its audience for what’s to come. More
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Syfy & Amblin to enter ‘Brave New World’
Syfy is joining with Steven Speilberg’s Amblin Television to adapt Aldous Huxley’s classic 1932 novel Brave New World into a scripted series. The project reunites the Emmy-winning team behind Syfy’s 2003 mini-series Taken. Ranked fifth among the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th Century by Modern Library, Brave New World takes place in a […] More
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