Steven Spielberg

Posted by Robin on Oct 30, 2012 in Featured, Film | Comments Off on Close Encounters of the Third Kind

The wonky title refers to a scale of alien contact developed by ufologist (wrote the bloggerologist) J. Allen Hynek. The book, published a...

Posted by Robin on Nov 11, 2011 in Featured, Film | Comments Off on Raiders of the Lost Ark

Go back in time with me, waaay back to 1975, and the start of the George Lucas/Stephen Spielberg dueling blockbuster action movies. 1975:...

Posted by Robin on Mar 8, 2011 in Film | 1 comment

Schindler’s List is Stephen Spielberg’s masterpiece. And that’s quite a statement. It tells the true story of German...

Posted by Robin on Nov 1, 2010 in TV Show | 1 comment

The TV classic Columbo was an “anti-whodunit.” Typically, we saw the crime being committed at the beginning of the...

Posted by Robin on Jun 29, 2010 in Film | 1 comment

Since so many of my friends are either at the beach now or will be soon, it’s only fitting that we remind them about the movie that...

Posted by Robin on May 26, 2010 in Music | 1 comment

Can a composer’s entire reputation be validated on the basis of just two notes? Beethoven needed four notes to embed his iconic Fifth...

Posted by Robin on Jan 23, 2010 in The Arts, Writers | Comments Off on The Arts: Michael Crichton

You probably know Michael Crichton as a best-selling author. But he also achieved great success as a screenwriter, film director, and...

Posted by Robin on Jul 22, 2009 in Director | 1 comment

As a medium, film is not much more than 100 years old. But you’ll be hard pressed to find any director who’s produced better...