Steven Spielberg

How trailers changed the way we watch movies

By Krishna Francis

Modern blockbusters are made by a committee of millions. What happened to turning up and taking your chances?

How Close Encounters channels the wishful spirit of Pinocchio

By James Clarke

Steven Spielberg’s classic sci-fi teaches the importance of holding on to dreams.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

By David Jenkins

Don’t miss this newly restored director’s cut version of Steven Spielberg’s sci-fi opus.

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The BFG – first look review

By Sophie Monks Kaufman

There’s a dash of old-school movie magic in Steven Spielberg’s whizzpopping family fantasy.

In defence of Hook – Steven Spielberg’s grown-up ode to childhood

By James Clarke

Does the director’s take on JM Barrie’s classic tale of arrested development deserve its reputation?

Jeff Nichols says Midnight Special is an homage to Steven Spielberg

By Daniel Seddon

The writer/director talks exclusively about his upcoming film and how it channels Close Encounters and E.T.

The BFG gets a barnstorming new trailer

By Little White Lies

Another Steven Spielberg film peeks over the horizon as Bridge of Spies can still be seen in the rear-view.

The films of Steven Spielberg ranked – part two

By Little White Lies

Jaws? E.T.? Raiders? Close Encounters? Find out what we’ve put in the number one spot...

The films of Steven Spielberg ranked – part one

By Little White Lies

We take stock of the (almost) complete oeuvre of one of modern cinema’s true masters.

Jurassic Park and the story of the modern blockbuster

By David Jenkins

Steven Spielberg’s beloved 1993 movie is about so much more than dinosaurs.

How Spielberg’s gentle alien killed the video game industry

By Michael Leader

Did E.T. really cause the 1983 Video Game Crash? Michael Leader goes in search of a pop culture myth.

Lincoln

By Vadim Rizov

Steven Spielberg’s solemn latest is less a biopic and more a complex drama on the subject of political ends versus means.

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War Horse

By Adam Woodward

A strange sort of hybrid, wounded by the internal tensions between what it might be.

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