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‘The Adventures of Tin-Tin: The Secret of the Unicorn’ is visually stunning and action-packed

The Adventures of Tin-Tin – The Secret of the Unicorn Directed by Steven Spielberg Written by Joe Cornish, Steven Moffat and Edgar Wright 2011, USA/New Zealand For the past few years, Steven Spielberg has been on something of a sabbatical to focus on his work as a producer. Any director worth his money would welcome …

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8 Reasons To Love or Hate ‘Super 8’

Super 8 Directed by J.J.Abrams Written by J.J. Abrams 2011, USA J.J. Abrams’s secretive and highly anticipated third feature Super 8 arrived in cinemas earlier this week, and while it’s received fairly positive reviews, I was a bit shocked to learn how so many of my close friends absolutely hated the film. They say when …

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Portrayals of Nazis on film

Godwin’s Law, a well-known law of the internet dating back to the virtually prehistoric times of 1990, states that ‘as an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one’ (see TV Tropes). Perhaps a related law should be established stating that ‘the more films are made within a …

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‘Super 8’ – TV Spot Clues

It’s coming up on March and fans of J.J. Abrams know what that means. Since the release of a teaser during the Super Bowl for Super 8 (Abrams’ latest effort with producer Steven Spielberg), fanboys everywhere have scoured the interweb to find all the footage and dissecting every frame of it for clues about the plot and its …

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Titans: George Lucas v. Steven Spielberg (part 1)

George Lucas and Steven Spielberg.  Three and a half decades after their breakout successes, they remain arguably two of the most potent brand names in American entertainment and understandably so.  Probably more than any other two individuals, they have been – for good or for ill — responsible for a massive reconfiguration of media entertainment, …

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Titans: George Lucas v. Steven Spielberg (part 2)

Like Lucas, much of Spielberg’s work references the TV shows and movies he saw as a youngster, but where Lucas had spent several years in the intellectual hothouse of USC’s film program, Spielberg had, in essence, gone straight from watching TV to making TV.  Though he had ambitions of wanting to do “serious” film work, …

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A Look Back At Spielberg’s Masterpiece “Jaws”

Jaws Directed by Steven Spielberg Richard Dreyfuss, Roy Scheider and Robert Shaw star in this terrifying thriller about an enormous man-eating Great White Shark that terrorizes the fictional coastal summer resort town of Amity, Long Island on the Fourth of July weekend. Based on the trashy best-selling novel by Peter Benchley (who also provides the …

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Spielberg to Direct “Pirate Latitudes” Adaptation

DreamWorks studios recently attained rights for transforming Michael Crichton’s final novel Pirate Latitudes for the big screen, with Steven Spielberg to possibly produce and direct. In the screen-writers chair is David Keopp, long time Spielberg and Crichton collaborator, who all worked on Jurassic Park and The Lost World. Set in mid-1600, Pirate Latitudes follows a …

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