Some part of my brain still responds to the idea of a new Jurassic franchise movie with excitement, even though experience tells me it’s going to fail to fill the dino-sized shoes of Jurassic Park. It’s the same with Alien. Maybe there’s some element of the inevitable in […]
This month’s Guest Star is Jeffery X Martin. Read more of Jeffery X Martin’s words about music, movies, and professional wrestling at Biff Bam Pop! ~~~ “Whether we like it or not, the most important scientific problem we’re going to face in the last third of this [20th] […]
Our friends at The Projection Booth Podcast have a swell series on Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)! “On this special limited series, we read the story transcripts from the Raiders of the Lost Ark story conference wherein George Lucas (Chris Stachiw of The Kulturecast), Steven Spielberg (Author […]
Late Spring 1978, Clarksville Drive-In, Indiana — The car bounced to a halt on the uneven ground, some concoction between gravel and grass. I clamored out of the back seat and onto the hood, where I would remained perched for the next couple of hours in brazen defiance […]
Bill Wyman over at Slate ranks all of Spielberg’s films, along with an essay about watching all of them in a row, and the narrative nonsense that became obvious as a result.
In adapting Tintin, Noah Berlatsky writes, “Spielberg provides spectacular ship-to-ship battles, requisite car chases, and improbable fights between construction cranes. But he left out the thing that made the Indiana Jones films most like the Hergé books. That is, racism.”