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‘Music by John Williams’ Movie Review

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Five-time Academy Award winner John Williams is arguably the greatest film composer of all-time. A new documentary on his life and career, “Music by John Williams” (now streaming on Disney+), is one of my favorite movie experiences of 2024. It recently won the Critics Choice Documentary Award for Best Music Documentary, a well-deserved honor. Director […]
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‘The Fabelmans’ Movie Review

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Steven Spielberg’s “The Fabelmans” is inspired by the iconic director’s childhood and early love of seeing and making movies. It’s a drama filled with conflict, pain, and characters feeling sad and depressed. Ironically, it’s also one of the lightest dramas I’ve ever seen in recent years. Maybe that’s because the film is replete with corny, […]
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James Mangold is in the Directing Driver’s Seat

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Steven Spielberg has decided to step away from directing the fifth “Indiana Jones” movie with Harrison Ford (slated for release next summer). Part of the reason is that Spielberg wants to pass the baton to the next generation. But Spielberg is also anticipating a busy year ahead – making sure his version of the classic […]
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Steven Spielberg and the Oscar Crusade

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Steven Spielberg is one of the greatest filmmakers of all-time. Some of his movies are pure classics. Where would the world be without “Jaws”, “ET” or “Raiders of the Lost Ark”? And he’s still got it all these years later, with triumphs such as “Lincoln”, “The Post” and “Ready Player One”. But he’s not going […]
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‘The Post’ Review

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It’s almost unfair. Hanks, Streep, Spielberg, Williams all together on the same film? Arguably, these four make-up the Mount Rushmore of modern cinema. Well, here’s the good news for fans and the bad news for every other movie competing this Awards Season: “The Post” is even better than the sum of its parts. It’s 1971. […]
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‘Bridge of Spies’ Movie Review

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During the Cold War, an American lawyer is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court, and then help the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for the Soviet captured American U2 spy plane pilot, Francis Gary Powers. (DISNEY) This is the fourth collaboration for Oscar winning actor Tom Hanks and Academy Award […]
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‘Bridge of Spies’ Review

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Daniel Day-Lewis’ Oscar win for playing the 16th President of the United States marked the first time an actor won an Academy Award for a Steven Spielberg movie. “Bridge of Spies”, the legendary director’s first film since “Lincoln”, features another Hollywood heavyweight and, what could be, statue-worthy work. First off – Tom Hanks is sensational, […]
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Steven Spielberg

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Jackson with 4-time Oscar winning Director Steven Spielberg Lights Camera Jackson has been co-starring in photographs with his favorite celebrities from the entertainment, news and sports world since he was 6 years old. Jackson’s first picture with a celeb was snapped in January of 2005, at the Center For Disability Services Telethon in Albany, NY. […]
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