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Steven Spielberg Is No Frank Capra But You Should Still Go See ‘Bridge of Spies’

October 22, 2015 by Erik Schlittner 1 Comment

There are some movie scenes so cornball that only Frank Capra could get away with them. Think about Gary Cooper doing a radio address in Capra’s Meet John Doe (1941): But, we’ve all got to get in there and pitch. We can’t win the old ballgame unless we have teamwork. And that’s where every John…

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‘Ready Player One’ Will Never Stop Winning Awards

August 11, 2015 by Lyda Morehouse 1 Comment

Prometheus Award for Best Novel (2012) ALA Alex Award (2012) Tähtivaeltaja Award Nominee (2013) Abraham Lincoln Award Nominee (2014) Green Mountain Book Award Nominee (2015) Seiun Award, Best translated novel (2015) When I was in high school in the 1980s, nerds like me got locked into lockers and taped to flagpoles with their pants down…

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Minority Report: The Unbearable Loudness Of Spielberg

April 1, 2015 by Eric Williams 2 Comments

Steven Spielberg is a Phillip K. Dick character. He’s an immensely wealthy propagandist with a cynical streak so wide and so all-encompassing that, without the proper distance, can easily be mistaken for naïve mawkishness. Spielberg doesn’t have the microscopic misanthropy of, say, a Kubrick or a Lynch or even a P.T. Anderson, dissecting characters to…

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