As difficult as it may be to believe, it has been 45 years since Jaws ushered in the age of the summer blockbuster. A special 4K edition of that film leads off the latest new releases, in a week that…
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Who doesn’t love a great franchise? Long-running series of films and television shows provide audiences with the opportunity to check in with their favorite characters to see what exciting exploits they have gotten into. We currently have a variety of…
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Steven Spielberg‘s 1977 sci-fi crowdpleaser Close Encounters of the Third Kind was a blockbuster exploration of that greatest of all cosmic questions: Are we alone in the universe? According to the film, the answer is a resounding no, and like…
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When a friend recently updated his Lost in Space collection to Blu-ray, he kindly gave me his DVD set. Although I’ve watched several Lost in Space reruns on the telly over the years, it had been a long time since…
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There’s an interesting thing that happens when a film score is removed from its source material and enjoyed on its own merits. One of my personal favorite scores is Bernard Herrmann‘s Taxi Driver soundtrack. What is on-screen the audio accompaniment…
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Jaws. Star Wars. Superman: The Movie. Jurassic Park. Raiders of the Lost Ark. E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial. John Williams is the greatest film composer of all time. Without his peerless work, the magic of the movies — as well as…
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