Tagged: Steven Spielberg

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1980s / Action / Adventure / War

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

Before I would develop an obsession with Hitchcock’s masterpiece, Vertigo, Raiders of the Lost Ark was my all-time favorite movie.  Perhaps as testament to the film’s greatness, it still ranks as a close second.  When someone...

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1980s / Adventure / Comedy / Family

The Goonies (1985)

A huge fan favorite for those who watched this growing up, The Goonies makes up for its silly, predictable story and stereotypical characters (the portrayal of the murderous and thieving Italian-American family, the Fratellis (which means...

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2010s / Drama

The Post (2017)

Set in Washington DC in 1971, The Post covers the local newspaper, the Washington Post, who end up the recipients of what would come to be known as the Pentagon Papers, which is a top-secret government...

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2010s / Action / Science Fiction / Thriller

Ready Player One (2018)

In the year 2045, orphaned teenage Columbus, Ohio resident Wade Watts (Sheridan, X-Men Apocalypse) lives, like seemingly everyone else around not working in the upper echelons of a corporation, in squalor (called ‘The Stacks”, which...

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2010s / Adventure / Comedy / Drama / Family / Fantasy

The BFG (2016)

Set in London, a clever but unhappy, insomnia-afflicted orphan named Sophie (Barnhill, “4 O’Clock Club”) wakes up in the middle of the evening and sees something outside the orphanage window. Investigating, she discovers a...

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2010s / Drama / Thriller

Bridge of Spies (2015)

Set starting in 1957, in the midst of the Cold War between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, Tom Hanks (Saving Mr. Banks, Captain Phillips) stars as New York-based insurance lawyer James B. Donovan, a...

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1970s / Action / Comedy / Drama

The Sugarland Express (1974)

The Sugarland Express tells the tale, based on true events chronicled in 1969, of Clovis (Atherton, Ghostbusters) and Lou Jean Poplin (Hawn,Foul Play), a married couple from Texas who determine to travel hundreds of miles to Sugarland,...