Tag: steven spielberg

Backed Up Kickstarted into existence by the Back to the Future fanbase, Back in Time digs into the lasting zeitgeist left by the time travel trilogy. An introductory chapter …

Stop motion in the spotlight The highlights of Special Effects Titan come as lost Ray Harryhausen animation displays on screen, footage discovered buried in his garage sometime in 2008. …

Bridging Cold War History Opening Bridge of Spies is a mute chase sequence. Agents hunt for a Red sympathizer. They weave between cars and peer around corner stores. Their …

Terminal is under a veil of perpetual glee.

For as phenomenal as the original source material is, Spielberg's work to craft an adaptation was done with a child-like wonder

Lincoln is never compelled to rush, and although that will lose some of the potential audience in dated dialects or mannerisms, authenticity is appreciated.

Breezy in tone, Catch Me If You Can is driven by a liar and a thief. Somehow, that's respectful to the audience.

This is E.T. as a generation remembers it, still completely effective in its effects, emotion, and heart.

The wonder pouring from Raiders' facade is no less dim, but in the lens of perspective, Crusade does it better because of Sean Connery and Harrison Ford.

Temple is saved by a rousing third act that is as good as any, including a hodgepodge of fight scenes leading into a mine cart chase that is tremendously …

Raiders is a B-level story. That's just the way it is, but more importantly, that's how it should be.

War Horse might be the most artificial piece of cinema Steven Spielberg has ever made.