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Steven Spielberg’s The Post named National Board of Review Film of 2017

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In a development that is about as surprising as this morning’s sunrise, Steven Spielberg’s The Post appears to be garnering overwhelmingly positive reactions since it debuted to the US press last week. Anticipation for the Spotlight style journalistic expose can now be cranked up a notch with the news that the National Board of Review […]

‘Uncover the Truth’ with new TV spot for Steven Spielberg’s The Post

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With just a month to go until its US limited release, a new TV spot has arrived online for Steven Spielberg’s upcoming drama The Post, entitled ‘Uncover the Truth’; take a look below… SEE ALSO: Watch the trailer for The Post here Steven Spielberg directs Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks in The Post, a thrilling drama […]

Steven Spielberg Is More Than His Brand

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Henry Bevan on Steven Spielberg… Is this the face of the most underrated director of the twenty-first century? It’s odd to use the word “underrated” in regards to Hollywood’s most successful director. He is the man who did change the face of popular culture with a shark, an archeologist and a dinosaur. His latest film, […]

Christopher Nolan consulted with Spielberg on Dunkirk

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While making Dunkirk, director Christopher Nolan consulted with Steven Spielberg. When most war films arrive in cinemas they end up being compared to Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan, particularly in reference to that film’s classic and shocking opening sequence. This was also true for Nolan’s first effort in the genre, and according to a recent feature […]

First trailer for Steven Spielberg’s The Post starring Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep

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Ahead of its US release next month, 20th Century Fox has debuted the first poster and trailer along with a batch of new images for director Steven Spielberg’s upcoming drama The Post which stars Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, Alison Brie, Carrie Coon, David Cross, Bruce Greenwood, Tracy Letts, Bob Odenkirk, Sarah Paulson, Jesse Plemons, Matthew […]

Tom Hanks’ Bios picked up by Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment

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Tom Hanks and director Steven Spielberg are teaming up again on a new science fiction project. Per The Hollywood Reporter, Spielberg has picked up Hanks’ sci-fi Bios through Amblin Entertainment. The film will be directed by Game of Thrones‘ Miguel Sapochnik from a script by Craig Luck and Ivor Powell with Robert Zemeckis producing. Bios will see Hanks as […]

First image of Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep in Steven Spielberg’s The Post

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20th Century Fox has released the first image from The Post, the new film from Steven Spielberg, which sees the legendary filmmaker teaming with Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep. The Post deals with The Washington Post’s instrumental role in lobbying the United States government to release the Pentagon Papers, a Department of Defense study into the […]

HBO releases trailer for its Spielberg documentary

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Next month, HBO is set to delve into the life and career of legendary filmmaker Steven Spielberg with the feature length documentary Spielberg from director Susan Lacy, and we’ve got the poster and first trailer for you here; check them out… Steven Spielberg has built an unrivaled catalogue of groundbreaking films over the course of […]

Nine Directors Who Could Helm Star Wars: Episode IX

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Liam Hoofe takes a look at nine filmmakers who could replace Colin Trevorrow as director of Star Wars: Episode IX…  UPDATE: As announced just an hour after posting this article, J.J. Abrams will be back in the director’s chair for Star Wars: Episode IX. Colin Trevorrow’s departure from Star Wars: Episode IX last week has […]

Blu-ray Review – E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

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E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, 1982. Directed by Steven Spielberg. Starring Dee Wallace, Peter Coyote, Henry Thomas, Robert MacNaughton, and Drew Barrymore. SYNOPSIS: Anniversaries divisible by five remain popular with the Hollywood studios’ home theater divisions, so of course E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial needed (not really) that treatment for its 35th anniversary. If you have the Blu-ray issued […]