Tag Archives: Steven Spielberg

Big Screen – this week’s top ten at the cinema…

Chronicle Power outage… With great power comes no responsibility in this fly-on-the-wall-style sci-fi fantasy about three teenagers who mysteriously gain superhuman abilities. If you can see this, then you might need a Flash Player upgrade or you need to install … Continue reading

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Big Screen – this week’s top ten at the cinema…

War Horse Emotional hurdles… Steven Spielberg holds the reins of this war epic, based on the Michael Morpurgo novel of the same name, which charts the bond between a man and the horse he tamed and trained. If you can … Continue reading

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Big Screen – this week’s top ten at the cinema…

War Horse Emotional hurdles… Steven Spielberg holds the reins of this war epic, based on the Michael Morpurgo novel of the same name, which charts the bond between a man and the horse he tamed and trained. If you can … Continue reading

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Film review | War Horse – Spielberg gets caught in no man’s land between moving and mawkish

A huge success as a book and an even bigger hit on stage, Michael Morpurgo’s heart-rending First World War tale of a Devon farm boy and his beloved horse reaches the screen with no less a whip-hand than Steven Spielberg … Continue reading

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DVD review | Super 8 – A close encounter of the retro kind that would make Spielberg proud

JJ Abrams, creator of Alias and Lost, pays homage to Steven Spielberg with a terrific sci-fi mystery that comes across as The Goonies meets Close Encounters. In 1979 small-town Ohio, a typically Spielbergian setting, a bunch of young kids are … Continue reading

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Couch Potato’s Tuesday Trivia: The lofty inspiration behind Gremlins

Harry Potter director (Philosopher’s Stone & Chamber of Secrets) Chris Columbus was the man who conceived the idea for 1980s horror comedy Gremlins. It was while at film school that he penned his screenplay about an army of mischievous monsters … Continue reading

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Big Screen – this week’s top ten at the cinema…

Immortals Heavens above… From the producers of 2006’s 300 comes this fantasy adventure, which charts the attempts by Theseus (Henry Cavill) to stop the ruthless King Hyperion (Mickey Rourke) in his bid to overthrow the Gods of Olympus. If you … Continue reading

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Big Screen – this week’s top ten at the cinema…

The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn Character driven… Steven Spielberg helms this performance-capture action adventure in which Hergés classic character Tintin and friends embark on quest to find a sunken ship. If you can see this, then you … Continue reading

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Film review | The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn – Quiff ahoy!

Tintin fans can rest easy. Steven Spielberg has launched the intrepid cub reporter on a spectacular big-screen adventure that deploys the very latest 3D and performance-capture trickery but stays faithful to Hergé’s original comic books – right down to Tintin’s … Continue reading

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Big Screen – this week’s top ten at the cinema…

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 Dazzling dénouement… The blockbusting fantasy franchise comes to an end as Harry has a final face-off with his nemesis, Lord Voldemort, as the forces of good at Hogwarts battle against the sinister … Continue reading

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