Posts Tagged ‘steven spielberg’
Score Your Week | James Horner’s “The Land Before Time”
I know what your thinking. The Land Before Time is your choice for this Score Your Week? Well, prepare to be wowed because James Horner‘s work on Don Bluth‘s 1988 cartoon about a group of young dinosaurs trying to find a home may be his best.
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Scene Stealer | The Searchers “Enter the Spirit Land”
Wayne's most iconic character, Ethan Edwards.
Every scene in John Ford’s The Searchers is great, and I could continue this column for months utilizing it alone. After all it’s wisely regarded as the greatest western of all time and currently sits at number 12 on AFI’s Greatest Films of all Time list. It’s the picture that David Lean watched on repeat before making Laurence of Arabia, a practice Steven Spielberg has taken up as well.
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The Filmdogs Podcast: Episode 19 – School’s Out
The 19th Episode of The Filmdogs Podcast is threaded and ready to roll. This week we chat about new projects from Chris Pine, Gulliermo Del Toro, Robert Rodziguez, and Spielberg in the News. Then we discuss the bearded ones’ 1991 film Hook for In Defense of. It’s our 5 favorite screenplays in our Featured Topic, and to close it out we have a famous convo from Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction in our The One Liner of the Week.
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Back to the Future Coming Soon to Blu-Ray!!
One more holy trilogy finally makes it’s way to the beautiful high-def format. To mark the 25th anniversary of the classic film Universal is releasing the box set on Blu-ray October 26th with special features that didn’t make it onto the last edition. Producer Bob Gale praised the quality of the transfers saying:
They actually look better than they did in the theater because of the incredible job that was done on dirt clean-up. And the film grain is preserved, so they still look like movies should look.
Double Feature | A.I. Artificial Intelligence and Minority Report
Steven Spielberg is and always will be one of my favorite filmmakers. As a child he guided me through the treacheries that is every day life with film such as: Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T., Jurassic Park, and (dare I say) Hook. From 1997 to 2005, Spielberg hit a creative peak and began to dive into darker and more adult themed material starting with Amistad and ending beautifully with Munich. The double feature I will be recommending is two of his best works in his dark run, the extremely underrated sci fi duo, A.I. Artificial Intelligence and Minority Report. Read the rest of this entry »
NO EXCUSES – “Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen”
No Excuses is a new column that picks apart the reasons why a film failed and really why there is no EXCUSE for such a piece of garbage to be made.
This installment features Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and a lot of you already know how lousy this film really is already. But let’s go ahead and dig deeper and see exactly WHY this film just falls apart and should have never even been made.
