****GREAT WHITE SPOILERS AHEAD!!**** The Classic. 1975’s “JAWS” (1975), directed by then-wunderkind filmmaker Steven Spielberg, is simply one of the greatest movies ever made— a perfect synthesis of drama, horror, action and adventure which ushered in the era of the ‘summer blockbuster.’ The movie was smartly adapted from Peter Benchley’s bestseller novel by Benchley himself,…
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“JAWS: The Art of Fear in Filmmaking” exhibit at Catalina Island…
To paraphrase the tagline from JAWS 2: Just when you thought it was safe to go into the museum… I’d like to preface by saying JAWS is one of my top five favorite movies of all time. If I were marooned on a desert island with a portable DVD player that ran on coconut juice? I…
Musings of a Middle-Aged Geek 