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4K Ultra HD Review – Jaws (1975)

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Jaws, 1975. Directed by Steven Spielberg. Starring Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfus, Lorraine Gary, and Murray Hamilton. SYNOPSIS: Jaws arrives on 4K disc looking and sounding as close to its theatrical glory as you can get on home video these days. The sound and picture are top-notch, and while Universal didn’t include anything new […]

Steven Spielberg clarifies his position regarding Netflix original movies

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Legendary director Steven Spielberg has clarified his position on Netflix original movies. With the increasing popularity of Netflix and their push to create more original films, the clash between this new way of experiencing content and the traditional theatrical release has come to the fore. Steven Spielberg has spoken less than glowingly about Netflix original […]

Ready Player One images show off the characters and their avatars

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Entertainment Weekly has revealed a batch of new stills and behind the scenes images for the upcoming sci-fi fantasy Ready Player One featuring Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan) and Samantha Cook (Olivia Cooke), and their avatars Parzival and Art3mis, James Halliday (Mark Rylance), Ogden “Og” Morrow (Simon Pegg), Anorak, the High Five, Diato (Win Morisaki), Shoto (Philip […]

Tye Sheridan and Olivia Cooke featured in new image from Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One

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Empire has revealed a new images from Steven Spielberg’s upcoming adaptation of Ernest Cline’s New York Times best-selling sci-fi novel Ready Player One featuring Tye Sheridan and Olivia Cooke; check it out below… SEE ALSO: Watch the trailer for Ready Player One here In the year 2044, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage […]

Steven Spielberg says George Lucas will be involved with Indiana Jones 5

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We already knew that director Steven Spielberg, star Harrison Ford and composer John Williams are all returning for Indiana Jones 5, and now we can add George Lucas to that list too, with Spielberg confirming that his longtime friend will remain involved as an executive producer. “George is going to be an executive producer on it […]

The Greatest Director of All Time?

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Tom Jolliffe ponders the question: who is the greatest director of all time? One of the toughest of tough film related questions. Who is the greatest director ever? Think over all the icons throughout history. There have been countless, many who crossed from silent to sound, such as Fritz Lang, Carl Theodore Dreyer, D.W Griffith […]

Bradley Cooper to play Frank Bullitt for Steven Spielberg

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Deadline is reporting that Steven Spielberg has tapped Bradley Cooper to play Frank Bullitt, the character made famous by Steve McQueen in 1968’s Bullitt, in an original story centred around the no-nonsense San Francisco cop.  The new film, as-yet-untitled, will mark the second collaboration between Cooper and Spielberg after the upcoming Leonard Bernstein biopic Maestro, […]

Movie Review – The Fabelmans (2022)

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The Fabelmans, 2022. Directed by Steven Spielberg. Starring Gabriel LaBelle, Michelle Williams, Paul Dano, Seth Rogen, Judd Hirsch, Jeannie Berlin, Julia Butters, Robin Bartlett, Keeley Karsten and Sophia Kopera. SYNOPSIS: Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, from age seven to eighteen, a young man named Sammy Fabelman discovers a shattering family secret and […]

Great Directors and Their Forgotten Gems

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Tom Jolliffe looks at the forgotten gems that most great directors have… If you think of many great directors you cast your mind to their career highlights. Those iconic films. Many of these directors become largely defined by one or two films in particular (sometimes more). Additionally occasionally you might also remember those films that […]

From Duel to Joy Ride: The DNA of John Hyams’ Alone

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Tom Jolliffe takes a look at John Hyams’ latest film Alone, and delves into its DNA… In 2012, director John Hyams delivered a hell of a surprise package. It was his second film in a franchise that he took into wild (and occasionally divisive) avenues. Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning was near visionary in scraping […]