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Really good space adventure made so good by a crucial tip from Steven Spielberg
Apollo 13 is coming to TV today, in which Tom Hanks sets off to the moon as an astronaut, only to experience a catastrophic malfunction. The 1995 film adaptation of…
Steven Spielberg loves the best zombie horror of the year and the creator is over the moon
Video game adaptations can really work, that was clear with The Last of Us. The serial adaptation of the horror game of the same name lived from its lively, lovingly…
James Cameron and Steven Spielberg went completely nuts over this sci-fi masterpiece
Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey is considered by many to be the best sci-fi film of all time. The imagery, the staging, the design and the story of the…
One of the best horror movies of all time, it is still not clear if Steven Spielberg secretly directed it
A family is terrorized by supernatural beings, including through a television. That’s the story of Poltergeist. The horror classic from 1982 is coming to TV today. It doesn’t matter whether…
A legendary action thriller that Steven Spielberg is about to remake with Bradley Cooper
113 minutes of tire-splitting action, Bullitt is one of the most iconic films when it comes to car chase scenes in cinemas. In 1958 director Peter Yates brought the Mixture…
Will Smith almost turned down a sci-fi hit before The Matrix — but Steven Spielberg rescued him with a helicopter
It’s one of the funniest — and true — Hollywood stories: Will Smith turned down sci-fi classic The Matrix. And played in the flop Wild Wild West instead. It doesn’t…
What happened to Steven Seagal? He was an action star like Bruce Willis and 1000 controversies later he is almost forgotten
Action stars’ careers are the stuff of legends. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone fought an outright war in the 80s. Chuck Norris developed a TV personality that was 90% roundhouse…
The ridiculed sci-fi Bond Steven Spielberg was turned down for
The James Bond series has taken cinema’s most famous spy to the world’s most exotic locations. At one point, however, the series is so aloof that the secret agent even…
One of Steven Spielberg’s best films, for which he was actually the wrong man (he says himself)
After becoming known for big blockbusters like Jaws, ET – The Extra-Terrestrial or Raiders of the Lost Ark, Steven Spielberg surprised in 1985 with a quiet melodrama. The color purple,…
Steven Spielberg and George Lucas predicted catastrophe 10 years ago and now there’s a lot to suggest they’re right
Probably nobody in Hollywood knows blockbusters better than Steven Spielberg and George Lucas. The filmmakers have shaped blockbuster cinema with their work. Jaws (1975, Spielberg) or Star Wars (1977, Lucas):…