******BRACHIOSAUR-SIZED SPOILERS!****** My wife and I recently invited our longtime friend Kathy over for another of our ‘garage theater’ movie nights with her 12-year old son, Joshua, who is like a nephew to us (he cosplayed as “Luke” to our “Uncle Owen” and “Aunt Beru” for 2022’s Star Wars Celebration). Joshua was born well into…
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“Twilight Zone: The Movie” (1983) is a colorful homage to Rod Serling’s creation but with more shadow than substance…
*****SUPERNATURAL SPOILERS!***** The Ghosts in the Room Few movies in my lifetime have incurred as much ill will during their production as 1983’s “Twilight Zone: The Movie,” the filming of which led to the gruesome deaths of actor Vic Morrow and two children (Myca Dinh Le, Shin-Huei Chen) in 1982, after a helicopter accident was…
“Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” is one final hurrah for old times’ sake…
*****ARK OF THE COVENANT-SIZED SPOILERS!***** 42 Years of Jonesing for Indiana Like “Star Wars,” the Indiana Jones franchise has paralleled my own life ‘adventure’ from adolescence well into middle-age. In the summer of 1981, I was a middle-schooler with most of my life ahead of me, eagerly going to see a new summer ‘event movie’…
The trailer for 2023’s “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” whips it good…
The Trailer. Lucasfilm/Disney has released the first trailer for “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” which is due to arrive in theaters on June 30th, 2023. While star Harrison Ford returns, this marks the first Indiana Jones movie to not be directed by longtime series director Steven Spielberg. Taking the reins for this adventure…
Revisiting Steven Spielberg’s “E.T.” after 40 years…
40 Years Ago. When I was not-quite 11 years old, one of the most awe-inspiring movies I’d ever seen was Steven Spielberg’s brilliant “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”(1977). “Close Encounters” was life-changing, and propelled my current never-ending curiosity about the universe. Five years later, in 1982, I was a somewhat more cynical 15 years…
Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story” (2021) smartly updates and improves upon a classic…
*****NEW YORK CITY-SIZED SPOILERS!!***** Robert Wise’s “West Side Story,” 1961. Director Robert Wise’s 1961 film of Jerome Robbins’ Broadway hit “West Side Story” was the “Hamilton” of its day; a 1957-set retelling of Shakespeare’s timeless tragic romance, “Romeo and Juliet,” as seen through the eyes of rival New York City street gangs, the Sharks and…
Wading deep into the waters of “JAWS 2” (1978)…
Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Go Back In The Water… The unprecedented success of Steven Spielberg’s “JAWS” (1975) not only inaugurated the summer movie phenomenon, but it also guaranteed a sequel, despite the finality of JAWS’ conclusion. As I’ve said more than once on this site, JAWS is one of my favorite…
A look back at the most Disney film Disney never made: Steven Spielberg’s “Hook” is turning 30…
Critically Pan-ned. *****SPIELBERGIAN SPOILERS AHEAD!!***** In December of 1991, I remember going to see “Hook” about a week or so after it’d opened. I was not the greatest fan of J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan stories, though I was familiar enough with the 1953 Disney animated feature, which I saw as a kid. As a fan…