After the unbelievable success of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Lucasfilm and Walt Disney have decided to resurrect another hallowed franchise. There’s still no work on who will write the screenplay or whether they’ll excuse the fourth movie as a bad dream suffered by Indy during a particularly bad horrendous of malaria. Until we hear more news, such as what involvement George Lucas might have in ...[Read More]
The Tom Hanks-starring period piece Bridge of Spies is Steven Spielberg’s best and most entertaining film since…well, his last Tom Hanks-starring period piece. In the decade-plus since the delightful Catch Me If You Can, Spielberg’s made good starchy period pieces (Lincoln), dull starchy period pieces (War Horse) and a few old-school adventure pictures that still can’t shake a certain sedateness (...[Read More]
A dramatic thriller set against the backdrop of a series of historic events, DreamWorks Pictures/Fox 2000 Pictures’ Bridge of Spies, starring Tom Hanks and directed by Steven Spielberg, tells the story of James Donovan, a Brooklyn lawyer who finds himself thrust into the center of the Cold War when the CIA sends him on the near-impossible task to negotiate the release of a captured American U-2 pi...[Read More]