SpielBLOG: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade – A Steven Spielberg Retrospective
Along with many others, I watched Solo with a growing sense of disappointment. Here was an iconic Star Wars character, a hero, who...
Read MoreSpielBLOG: Empire of the Sun – A Steven Spielberg Retrospective
There’s a rhyming in the posters of E.T.: the Extra-Terrestrial and Empire of the Sun. The big moon is replaced with the big sun;...
Read MoreSpielBLOG: The Color Purple – A Steven Spielberg Retrospective
I’ve never really understood this idea that Steven Spielberg felt it necessary to move into serious films. To me Jaws, Close...
Read MoreSpielBLOG: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom – A Steven Spielberg Retrospective
Indiana Jones came from a conversation that Steven Spielberg had with George Lucas on a beach in Hawaii. Everyone knows that. He was...
Read MoreSpielBLOG – Twilight Zone: The Movie – A Steven Spielberg Retrospective
In the 1980s, the TV spin-off movie was relatively rare. Star Trek: The Motion Picture and its sequel The Wrath of Khan had been...
Read MoreSpielBLOG: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial – A Steven Spielberg Retrospective
I don’t cry watching movies. I weep. Sometimes inconsolably. Certain classic movies can press my buttons in a way that isn’t...
Read MoreSpielBLOG: 1941 – A Steven Spielberg Retrospective
Stanley Kubrick said it should have been marketed as a drama. John Milius saw it as an opportunity to make a historical film about a...
Read MoreSteven SpielBLOG: Jaws
Jaws was shown on ITV 8 October 1981, its UK television premiere. A Saturday. I was 9 years old. 23 million others watched it the same...
Read MoreSteven SpielBLOG: The Sugarland Express
In the early seventies, a debut movie was released of a young filmmaker. Based on a true story, it told the slim tale of two naive young...
Read MoreSteven SpielBLOG: Duel
An introduction to the Steven SpielBLOG Thursday, October 8, 1981, I rushed home from cubs. I was 9 and Jaws was on ITV for the first time...
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