Spielberg

Kate McKinnon humorously discovered, along with the rest of the world, that she’d accidentally been sending “tasteful nudes” to cinematic legend Steven Spielberg during the 96th Academy Awards.At Sunday’s Academy Awards, comedian Kate had everyone laughing as she and her Barbie co-star, America Ferrera, presented together and included a playful banter about Jurassic Park in their Oscars bit.The duo was presenting the awards for Best Documentary Short and Best Documentary Feature when Kate’s perfect comedic timing came…

My first memory is running in a corridor with my diaper on, looking for my parents, when I was two. I was alone in the apartment in the suburbs of Paris. My mother had taken my sister to see a movie. I don’t know where my father was.My parents decided to put my sister and I into boarding school because they were separating and my grandmother was a cook there, which meant they didn’t have to pay for a while. I was in the kindergarten so I wasn’t in the same dormitory as my older sister. I was playing all the time,…

Instead of the alternating three-note theme song, would Steven Spielberg’s Jaws have been such a great horror film with a short-but-eerie show tune, or just some over-the-top creepy effects thrown together instead? I don’t even want to begin imagining it. The theme song worked so well to create fear around the monster shark, and for almost half a century, it has become synonymous with suspense. What’s even scarier is the fact the iconic theme almost wasn’t used by Spielberg. Thankfully, John Williams, who has composed…

From Jaws to Jurassic Park, one cannot minimize the massive stamp Steven Spielberg has placed on the monster movie in modern history. So when the beloved filmmaker ran into the writer/director behind last year’s hit movie Godzilla Minus One, you can imagine how much it meant to him! Takashi Yamazaki was especially blown away by what Spielberg had to say to him upon their meeting. Following Takashi Yamazaki being among the 2024 Oscar nominees for Godzilla Minus One's impressive visual effects on its shoestring budget, the…

Image: Universal PicturesSteven Spielberg wouldn’t be where he is without his crucial collaborators George Lucas and Kathleen Kennedy. And you could say any of the trio have stepped in to save the day on a number of each other’s films through advice and in some cases even taking over directing duties. Without them we wouldn’t have the Star Wars, Indiana Jones, or Jurassic Park franchises.Spoilers of the Week | June 10thIn an interview with the Hollywood Reporter, Spielberg revealed a glorious bit of DNA about the making…

Few directors manage to define their own generation, let alone those that follow. Steven Spielberg has been at the top of his game for most of his career. The filmmaker is credited with ushering in the “New Era of Hollywood,” is one of the most commercially successful directors in history, and will go down as one of the best directors of all time.    The beloved director has made nearly 50 films since he released his first short, Amblin’ (which shares the name with his co-created studio, Amblin Entertainment), and has…

Steven Spielberg has broken his silence on the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack on Israel. In a statement shared by the USC Shoah Foundation, which was founded by Spielberg in 1994, the Oscar-winning filmmaker said, “I never imagined I would see such unspeakable barbarity against Jews in my lifetime.” His comments come as the organization continues its initiative to collect testimonies from survivors of the ongoing Israel-Hamas war and Holocaust survivors and witnesses. “The team at the USC…

Audiences everywhere have spent nearly 50 years watching and adoring Harrison Ford, and a new documentary on Disney+ takes that wonderful experience and condenses it down to 90 minutes.“Even AI Rappers are Harassed by Police” | AI UnlockedWith the fifth Indiana Jones film, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, finally hitting the streamer today, it also added a new documentary called Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones & Harrison Ford. Directed by Laurent Bouzereau, it’s an ambitious film that aims to explain and explore…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeIn every industry and walk of life, even the best of us sometimes fail to hit the mark.For professional filmmakers, however, mistakes can be costly. Unlike most people, their slip-ups can be witnessed by millions of people – a bad film can tar someone’s reputation for years or even decades.This isn’t just a list about bad films, however. This is a tribute to the rare instances when…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeIn every industry and walk of life, even the best of us sometimes fail to hit the mark.For professional filmmakers, however, mistakes can be costly. Unlike most people, their slip-ups can be witnessed by millions of people – a bad film can tar someone’s reputation for years or even decades.This isn’t just a list about bad films, however. This is a tribute to the rare instances when…