Category: Director
Indiana Jones and the Return to Form
I’ll be honest: after Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, I was wary about watching the third outing, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. I wasn’t…
Indiana Jones and the Nasty, Mean-Spirited Sequel
I’m just going to come right out and say it: I really did not enjoy sitting through Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. I can’t, for the…
Raiders of the Lost Ark: Spielberg's Fury Road
By the time I was born in 1990, Steven Spielberg, through triumphs like Jaws, Close Encounters, and E.T., had already cemented himself as one of…
Spielberg's Ark: The Masterful Schindler's List
In Language and Silence (1967), Cambridge University’s George Steiner famously suggested that, because the Holocaust “lies outside speech as it lies outside reason,” the proper…
Let's Talk About Catch Me If You Can
Whenever people talk about the historical prestige films that Steven Spielberg has made over the years, they talk about films like Schindler’s List, The Color Purple, and Lincoln….
Empire Of The Sun: Goodbye To Childhood
Empire of the Sun marks Spielberg’s departure from the theme of childhood and innocence and is his first step into more adult territory with films…
Masterpiece Memo: Spielberg's 'Close Encounter' With Greatness
Da. Da. Da. Da. Daaa. Those five notes are perhaps some of the most iconic in cinematic history. After all of the human drama and…
A.I. – Spielberg’s Greatest Fairytale
It has taken over a decade for critics to finally realise just how great A.I. Artificial Intelligence actually is. A.I. was Stanley Kubrick’s pet project,…
The Four Corners of Spielberg
In one corner we have Amistad, Bridge of Spies, and Munich; in the opposing corner, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, War of the Worlds, and Close Encounters…
Steven Spielberg Week: How To Watch His Movies – 2010s
The most recent batch of Spielberg films (not including the newly released The Post) deliver heavy, but audience-friendly political journeys (including The Post), a film…
Steven Spielberg Week: How To Watch His Movies – 2000s
A huge return to an unforgettable adventure franchise, a sci-fi drama once meant for a certain Stanley Kubrick, a Tom Cruise double bill, a Tom Hank…
Steven Spielberg Week: How To Watch His Movies – 1990s
In the 1990s Spielberg would conquer both box office and Academy Awards in the very same year. All his films from then decade are easily…
Steven Spielberg Week: How To Watch His Movies – 1980s
Many of us have a nostalgic fondness of the 80s, grew up with Spielberg’s legacy as he showed us true cinematic adventure and young emotional…
Steven Spielberg Week: How To Watch His Movies – 1970s
So here we are arriving at Steven Spielberg Week. I know you’ve been looking forward to this. But wait, you haven’t seen Schindler’s List? You…
