Tag: Steven Spielberg
TIFF ’22 Review Dispatch #1: The Big Three – ‘The Fablemans’, ‘Glass Onion’, ‘The Woman King’
Two weeks before TIFF I wrote a preview piece for Rotten Tomatoes that listed the 11 Toronto premieres with the biggest buzz, and I ranked…
Filmotomy’s Best Films of the Decade – Jeremy Robinson’s List
Members of the Filmotomy team agonize over their top ten for the decade (2010-19). Trying to narrow your favorite films of the past decade to…
Film Road to Halloween: Jaws (1975)
The road to Halloween is paved with good films. Wherein we countdown to the spirited season with a hundred doses of horror. 60 days to…
1979 in Film: Steven Spielberg’s 1941
It’s probably contrarian enough to defend a movie like 1941 as a good film, but it may be futile to try to convince people it’s…
Rewind: 1993 in Film – "Dinosaurs… Eat man. Woman Inherits the Earth" – Jurassic Park
Although it may not seem obvious, Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park is arguably a feminist film. From the off, one of the strongest themes is ‘man…
Festival de Cannes 72 Countdown: The Sugarland Express, 1974
We excitedly countdown to the 72nd Festival de Cannes with a different prize winning film each day. The Sugarland Express, 1974 Prix du scénario –…
How Jaws Changed My Life and the World
Like most people, I’ll never forget the first time I saw Jaws. My parents had a copy of Peter Benchley’s original novel on our bookshelf at home….
Vilmos Zsigmond – Images from a Renegade Camera
He broke every rule in the standard cinematographers’ catechism – and caught much flack for it early in his career. Then people began to catch on. This was a new visual language, an impressionistic wash that Zsigmond applied that elevated the films – and the directors he worked for – into a unique category, all their own.
Spielberg's The Post Resurfaces With North Carolina Film Critics Association Nominations
The North Carolina Film Critics Association pride themselves in not just putting forward their “bests” of the year in film. But also honoring some of…
Steven Spielberg Films Ranked: 5-1
Steven Spielberg, a certain Drew Barrymore’s godfather, has still amazed and inspired us, and his peers, with the kind of prolific, excellent range of cinema…
Steven Spielberg Films Ranked: 10-6
In the late 1970s, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg were buddies. And both were embarking on huge, game-changing science fiction epics. Believe it or not…
Steven Spielberg Films Ranked: 15-11
Once upon a time, in the condition that Warner Bros. utilize a cast primarily from the UK and Ireland, J. K. Rowling agreed to sell…
Steven Spielberg Films Ranked: 29-16
Okay, your votes are in and counted. Thank you all for participating. I know picking your favorite Steven Spielberg movies is extremely tricky. As is…
Fight or Flight? The Tale Of Two Lovers In Spielberg’s The Terminal
I don’t do romantic comedies, I find them predictable and cliched. But I do like Tom Hanks, because well he’s Tom Hanks. And, I adore…
