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on April 20, 2026
Jaws opens with a point-of-view tracking shot through the ocean. It could be the point-of-view of the shark, but it looks a lot like the point-of-view of a snorkeler. When we watch read this post from Myjourneyalongtheway scene as an audience member, we’re taken back to memories of swimming in the ocean. With John Williams’ ominous score playing over it, building suspense, we’re terrif
Along the way, the pair cross paths with one bizarre character after another, including a drug dealer portrayed by a young McConaughey. Cheesy and dull, Scorpion Spring tries to be way too big for its britc
Swelter tries hard to be an edgy contemporary Western , but it falls very, very short of its goal. This heist film stars Lennie James as a former professional thief turned small-town sheriff who is hunted down by his former breth
Antiquated gender roles were a topic unto themselves when discussing the movie and its generic, rehashed, structure, whilst satisfyingly tied into the movie's inherent theme of corporate cynicism, was too much nostalgia and not enough ingenuity for s
John Williams, again, delivered one of his most recognizable scores and cinematographer Douglas Slocombe highlighted Spielberg's practicality while making the composition of the movie's shots timelessly beauti
The latest Indiana Jones movie still remains one of the most controversial entries with fans despite being quite highly-rated by critics. There was an almost-20-year gap in between Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and Last Crusade and, in that time, fan expectations had morphed into something similar to those seen amongst Star Wars f
Similarly remaking a number of the core elements of the original Jurassic Park 's first sequel as Jurassic World remade Jurassic Park , the movie slipped further into algorithmic screenwriting in the eyes of many critics and fans al
The story of a fighter who needs to get drunk to fight made for the perfect action comedy , because the joke engine of the comedy is driven by action. The fights are masterfully choreographed and performed by experts, but it has a slapstick approach. As usual, Chan’s stunt work is impecca
There was a different kind of intensity. Because of 1941, the intensity was in the speed with which we had to make it. Steven has spoken about this quite a bit since, but it taught him that you didn't need to take all the time he was taking in making a movie before; that he could work fast without losing the quality. They had all sorts of clauses in their contract between each other, Steven and George, to make sure that Steven came in on time and under budget - which he did. It was a very fast shoot, in the sense that in Tunisia in the heat there, Steven would run between setups. The film crew was the same film crew that I'd been working with on Dogs of War immediately before in Belize, which was hot too - and humid heat. But in Tunisia, they were falling asleep at lunchtime in their food because Steven was just running them ragged. As soon as he said "Cut!" in one set, he would run across the sand to the next set and say, "Alright, I'm here! Next." He drove the thing like a steam eng
Spielberg’s WWII epic Saving Private Ryan , the one that induced PTSD attacks in war veterans, opens and closes with the same image: an American flag, blowing in the wind, color-graded with a very bleak, washed-out palette. Some critics have called these shots contradictory to the movie’s message. Saving Private Ryan is poised as an unpatriotic, anti-war film, yet it’s impossible to see the American flag as anything other than patriotic. The desaturated colors could be seen as Spielberg having his cake and eating it,
He is later revealed to be a Soviet spy. The American press vilifies him as his appointed lawyer, James Donovan, agrees to fairly argue his case in court. This opening shot captures the nuances of Mark Rylance’s performance as A
The first sequel in the Indiana Jones franchise, which is technically a prequel as it takes place before the events of Raiders of the Lost Ark , emphasized the darkest elements of the original movie but depicted its nostalgic genre elements in a much more cynical
Steven Spielberg has birthed a number of movie history's most well-liked accomplishments and, in terms of long-running franchises, is perhaps best known for the Jurassic Park franchise and the Indiana Jones franchise. Both modernized nostalgic adventure movie tropes and iconography to great success with audiences and produced some of the most memorable sequences in the history of cinema. But which of the movie series have fared better with crit
Park Chan-wook’s neo-noir revenge thriller Oldboy is a must-see for fans of fight choreography for its iconic hallway sequence alone. The story at large follows a falsely imprisoned man’s attempts to figure out who got him locked up, but in one particularly brutal scene, he takes on a legion of henchmen alone in a hall
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