Tag: Jaws
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Why James Mangold Couldn’t Give Indiana Jones The Same Morbid Outcome As Logan
When James Mangold took the adventuring archaeologist reins from Steven Spielberg on “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” fans were wary for a couple of reasons. One was the simple fact that, aside from ABC’s “The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles,” Spielberg was the series’ sole director. As the “Jaws” sequels and the “Jurassic World”…
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The Opening Kill of Each ‘Jaws’ Shows How the Rest of the Movie Will Go
Over a 12-year span, from 1975 to 1987, four Jaws films were released. They ran the gamut from an all-time masterpiece to a hilarious slasher flick. Going in, if you were watching them for the first time, with no advanced knowledge of their individual reputation, you wouldn’t know what you were in for. For all…
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Cool Stuff: Spielberg: The First Ten Years Book Digs Into The Director’s Earliest Blockbusters
We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.No one can deny that Steven Spielberg is one of the most renowned and influential director’s in cinema history. From game-changing blockbusters like “Jaws” and “Jurassic Park” to devastating prestige Oscar-winning films like “Schindler’s List” and “Munich,” Spielberg is a master storyteller who has been turning…
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10 Best Movies Like ‘Jaws’
Jaws is one of those untouchably brilliant movies that might well never be equaled, when it comes to either movies about sharks, or movies that simply depict humanity’s struggle against some terrifying force of nature. It was the film that truly put a young Steven Spielberg on the map as a great director, and takes…
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Luckily Robin Williams Didn’t Play Opposite This Comedian in ‘The Birdcage’
Film history is full of “what-if” scenarios of actors, writers, and directors. Eric Stoltz instead in Back to the Future instead of Michael J. Fox, Alejandro Jodorowsky’s version of Dune, or the unfathomable scenario of the shark actually working on the set of Jaws, to name a few. One that has fallen by the wayside,…
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Steven Spielberg Almost Made This Video Game Movie Adaptation
Steven Spielberg has a storied career spanning decades, meaning that he’s tackled just about every movie genre under the planet. He’s tackled sci-fi epics including War of the Worlds and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. He broke hearts across the world with Schindler’s List and defined the modern blockbuster with Jaws (terrifying legions of…
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A Classic James Bond Film Got Some Secret Assistance From Stanley Kubrick
1977’s “The Spy Who Loved Me” is a landmark James Bond film for several reasons. For one, it fully cemented Sir Roger Moore as Bond, establishing his take on the character as distinctive and separate from Sean Connery and George Lazenby. For another, it introduced another recurring character to the continuity-lite franchise: Richard Kiel’s imposing…
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More gore please: don’t waste my time with blood-free monster movies | Anne Billson
Steven Spielberg mastered the art of carnage in Jaws and Jurassic Park, but pale imitators such as Meg 2 seem to have forgotten how to do itMonster movie fans were thrilled when Ben Wheatley was confirmed as director of Meg 2: The Trench. The director of Kill List unleashed on a film in which Jason…
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Sorry, Blockbusters: America’s Real ’80s Cinema Legacy Is Robert Redford’s Sundance Institute
For years, much of the film industry has considered Sundance as a ’90s legacy, one most famous for launching the festival that cemented a market for American independent film. However, the seeds for that phenomenon were sown in the previous decade.Hollywood raced into the ’80s with its blockbuster juices flowing, as the box-office sensations of…
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The Best Summer Blockbusters of the 21st Century
Just two years ago, it seemed like the summer blockbuster might be a thing of the past. After Covid kept cinemas closed across the United States for the majority of 2020, the box office reopened in 2021 on uncertain footing, with many high profile flops and a soft performance for the movies overall. That summer…