Tag: Jaws
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Top 10 Steven Spielberg Movies: #4 ‘E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial’
Now that our Top 50 Superhero Movies of All Time list has come and gone, it’s on to the next! But this time around, we’re putting the spotlight on one specific filmmaker – one of the best of all-time, Steven Spielberg. From 1975’s Jaws, which started the summer blockbuster phenomenon, to 2017’s Academy Award-nominated The…
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From Don’t Look Now to The Godfather – why the 1970s is my favourite film decade
While Jaws and Star Wars spawned the blockbuster, groundbreaking film-makers pushed cinema to the limits with edgy drama and sparkling comedyFirst, the bad news. The 1970s found Hitchcock and Lean waning, Michael Powell a pariah and Pasolini beaten to death. Disaster movies were falling from the skies. Jaws and Star Wars gave birth to the…
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Top 10 Steven Spielberg Movies: #6 ‘Schindler’s List’
Now that our Top 50 Superhero Movies of All Time list has come and gone, it’s on to the next! But this time around, we’re putting the spotlight on one specific filmmaker – one of the best of all-time, Steven Spielberg. From 1975’s Jaws, which started the summer blockbuster phenomenon, to 2017’s Academy Award-nominated The…
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Top 10 Steven Spielberg Movies: #7 ‘Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade’
Now that our Top 50 Superhero Movies of All Time list has come and gone, it’s on to the next! But this time around, we’re putting the spotlight on one specific filmmaker – one of the best of all-time, Steven Spielberg. From 1975’s Jaws, which started the summer blockbuster phenomenon, to 2017’s Academy Award-nominated The…
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Collider’s Top 10 Steven Spielberg Movies: #10 ‘Minority Report’
Now that our Top 50 Superhero Movies of All Time list has come and gone, it’s on to the next! But this time around, we’re putting the spotlight on one specific filmmaker – one of the best of all-time, Steven Spielberg. From 1975’s Jaws, which started the summer blockbuster phenomenon, to 2017’s Academy Award-nominated The…
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Steven Spielberg Returns To Pure Pop Escapism In Nostalgic ‘Ready Player One’ [Review]
“Ready Player One,” Steven Spielberg’s dizzying foray into ’80s pop culture fandom, is a return of sorts to the pure pop escapism that pervaded his filmography in the late ’70s and early ’80s, with such films as “Jaws,” “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” “E.T.” and “Raiders of the Lost Ark.” The sheer playful joy…
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Solo performance: who should score Star Wars once John Williams quits?
The composer has suggested that Episode IX will be his last film in a faraway galaxy, opening the door for familiar and lesser-known names to take his placeArtists spend their lives working to attain the kind of supremacy over their field currently enjoyed by John Williams. If someone only knows one composer of film scores,…