The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Jurassic Park (1993) and its sequel The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) had two of the most iconic and popular action figure lines of the nineties. The toys for these… Read more »
Tag: Steven Spielberg
I Wanna Hold Your Hand
Even with his first feature I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978), director Robert Zemeckis is taking popular history and repackaging it as something intimate and personal. This process was reductive… Read more »
Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
In many ways Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (1977) is the quintessential Steven Spielberg film. It dares to dream that there is magic in the suburbs. It codifies Eastern… Read more »
Albert Brooks: Defending My Life
Albert Brooks and Rob Reiner have been best friends since high school. They are both the sons of prominent comedians who followed in their fathers’ footsteps and went on to… Read more »
Band Of Brothers
Band Of Brothers (2001) is now twenty years old. When it first aired on HBO Band Of Brothers epitomized the movement towards the cinematic in American television that had begun… Read more »
American Spectacle
This piece was originally written in March 2014. Jean-Luc Godard has said that the cinema died when filmmakers failed to show the Holocaust. Godard has also stated that the Americanization… Read more »
