Steven Spielberg

Why Has the Greatest Hollywood Novel Never Been Made Into a Hollywood Movie?

It was a live television drama in 1949. It was a two-part TV series in 1959. It was even, improbably, turned into a lavish Broadway musical in 1964. But a feature film of What Makes Sammy Run? Never happened. Never gonna happen. So what makes Hollywood run away from Sammy Glick? Why hasn't the ... More >>

Roger Ebert: Why There Can Never Be Another

Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained Is Both Seriously Thoughtful and Seriously Entertaining

Does Lincoln Feed the Spielberg Haters?

The first few minutes of Lincoln play out like a parody of the expectations of Steven Spielberg's detractors. The Great Emancipator rests like a humble Solomon upon a hard wooden chair, surrounded by freely mixing black and white soldiers of that great war of his. One black soldier dares to speak of ... More >>

Lincoln Review: Steven Spielberg and Daniel Day-Lewis Make the 16th President Relatable

The Ethics of Superhero Gun Use: Why Indy Does It in Raiders of the Lost Ark But Batman Doesn't in Dark Knight Rises

For all his doom and gloom, Batman isn't exactly an antihero--a point that's worth bringing up right now because another, less tortured hero can currently be found on IMAX screens across Los Angeles: ... More >>

Raiders of the Lost Ark Opens in IMAX: Remember When Indiana Jones Was Awesome?

The story goes that while filming in Tunisia in the summer of 1980, Steven Spielberg avoided the dysentery that afflicted most of the cast and crew of Raiders of the Lost Ark by holing up in his hotel room with a suitcase full of SpaghettiOs. Like most studio-approved behind-the-scenes errata, that ... More >>

War Horse at the Ahmanson Doesn't Live Up to the Hype

Liam Neeson: Evolution of a Badass

From Schindler's List to middle-aged action star

War Horse Review

Steven Spielberg Does World War I

Jeffrey Wisniewski's Battle of the Buddha: Is Motion Capture the Next New Thing in Video Art?

Jeffrey WisniewskiWisniewski's battling Buddhas: Hollywood high tech with art world cred​ Sculptor Jeffrey Wisniewski, known for dismantling an American colonial home and feeding it into a woodchipper, piece by piece, somewhat in the spirit of celebrated house-cutting artist Gordon Matta-Clar ... More >>

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AFI wraps edition

Super 8 Review

JJ Abrams meets Steven Spielberg

Pilar Alessandra: 5,000 Scripts and Counting

10 2011 Films We're Psyched About

Terrence Malick, Tintin and a killer psychokinetic tire

THE SUN'LL COME OUT TO-MARROW

Could You Raise $3 Million In Three Weeks? That's The Price Of Saving Hollywood Sign's Environs

Shannon Cottrell​Conservationists who want to save the land surrounding the iconic Hollywood sign from development have three weeks to raise $3 million dollars, they announced Wednesday. The Chicago-based investors who own the property, once for sale for $22 million, agreed to give it to the ... More >>

Hollywood Backs Boxer, Kaus Fights the Machine

Make no mistake, Hollywood's biggest political players are lining up behind the 2010 re-election bid of U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer, The Hill has reported.Film director Steven Spielberg​From David Geffen to Barbra Streisand to Steven Spielberg, the liberal/entertainment establishment gave Boxer bar ... More >>

DreamWorks Desperately Seeking $250 Million

Snider/Spielberg secretly make Disney play, lose Universal deal in the process

Hollywood's Double Whammy: SAG's Big Election and DreamWorks' New Deal

Two major shakeups

Hollywood Is This Summer's Action Film

Myers starts writing, Universal gets pirated, Barker is dumped and Geffen is set to jump

Indiana Ford ... and the Kingdom of Lucas and Spielberg

Harrison's daredevil archeologist returns, 19 years after Last Crusade

Poltergeist

Spielberg’s On the Lot Is Now in Session

Wunder-kindergarten

Grey the Transformer

Paramount Pictures’ chief now obeys his DreamWorks masters

We Are What Eats Us

In The Host, our fears come back to bite

Do-Run-Run

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Colossal

The mark of the Shadow, the future of gaming

Film Reviews

Reviews of Monster House, My Super Ex-Girlfriend and more

Hollywood’s Newest Age of Liberal Cinema

Histories of Violence

In the best films of 2005, the past came back to haunt

Catch Them — and Kill Them — if You Can

Steven Spielberg’s Munich follows international terrorism from one September to another

Give It Up for the Geisha

The exquisitely phony charms of the Asian bourgeoisie — Hollywood style

Silent Spielberg, Holy Protest: Will Oscar have the Balls for Munich?

Updated Nov. 30

Starfire and Brimstone

In Steven Spielberg’s War of the Worlds, an alien invasion cuts mankind down to size

Brother From Another Planet

Tom Hanks in Spielberg’s The Terminal

My Own Private Spaceship

Con Air

Spielberg's Catch Me If You Can takes flight

Letters

Majority Report

In the Mood for Wong Kar-wai

The year’s best films

Deadlyland

Hanks and Spielberg’s bloody theme park

Clash of the Titans

Spielberg and Kubrick’s A.I.

The Last Picture Shows

Film’s heroic age at the American Cinematheque

Growth Is Great

Like it or not, Playa Vista is getting built

Who It Is

Wetlands and the Well-Ordered Society

Coming to terms with Playa Vista after DreamWorks

Playa Vista Revisionism

DreamWorks, the critics now tell us, is okay by them

Letters

Dark Victory

Steven Spielberg's good war