Movie Gazette

Reviews Featuring Steven Spielberg

Catch Me If You Can
An original tale bringing out the best in a stellar cast, more than making up for the ever-so-slight impression that there’s been a mad rush to squeeze as much of the book’s content onto the big screen as possible.

Jaws
A terrifically acted, wonderfully made, suspense filled classic.

A.I. Artificial Intelligence
This is a reasonably sound sci-fi fantasy, but hardly the great masterwork that was promised.

Jurassic Park
The movie the dinosaurs themselves would recommend. If they didn’t have tiny pea-brains and weren’t all dead, that is.

Raiders of the Lost Ark
The greatest adventure of our time?

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
You’d never catch Tony Robinson and co. behaving like this on ‘Time Team’.

Austin Powers in Goldmember
It ain’t solid gold – even if certain parts of it are.

Saving Private Ryan
Stonewall proof that Steven Spielberg, while a marvellous film-maker, possesses not a single cynical bone in his body. Which is actually kinda nice, in a Forrest Gumpy sort of way.

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Sheer brilliance – with a hat on.

The Terminal
A marvellous piece of whimsy from the best mainstream actor and director of our generation. It might have a few faults, but they’re none of them terminal.

War of the Worlds
Spielberg's second holocaust survival feature is an unexpectedly subversive Wells adaptation that puts extreme human behaviour under the microscope.

Schindler's List
Spielberg's greatest work is compulsory viewing

News Items For Steven Spielberg

'No special Oscar' for CGI actors
Actor Andy Serkis says he does not see a need for a separate Oscar category for "performance capture" actors.

Ramones manager murdered by aide
The personal assistant to former Ramones manager Linda Stein is convicted in a New York court of bludgeoning her boss to death.

War Horse play gets Broadway run
Hit West End play War Horse - a favourite with British royalty and Hollywood celebrities alike - is to transfer to Broadway next year.

Watson named top-earning actress
Teenage Harry Potter actress Emma Watson is named Hollywood's highest-paid female star in a poll compiled by US magazine Vanity Fair.

Rap stars to host Haiti concert
Hip hop stars Sean "Diddy" Combs, Pharrell Williams and Queen Latifah are to host a two-hour concert and telethon for Haiti next month.

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