Tag Archives: Steven Spielberg

Review – Ready Player One

The new film by director Steven Spielberg, is based on the novel of the same name by Ernest Cline – Ready Player One. Cline additionally co-wrote the screenplay with Zak Penn. Set in a dystopian future, specifically 2045, where ‘post the corn syrup drought, and the bandwidth riots’ the world has taken to ‘living with problems rather than trying to

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Review – The Goonies

If you sit and make a list of films that capture the 1980’s, 1985’s ‘The Goonies‘ will always be fairly high up there for me. Produced by Steven Spielberg and directed by Richard Donner, with a screenplay by Christopher Columbus (who would go on to direct the first two Harry Potter films), this is a wonderful mix of romance, action,

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Review – Bridge of Spies

The lastest film by Tom Hanks is the 2015 cold war thriller Bridge of Spies, directed by Steven Spielberg. Based on the true story of incidents around 1960 involving a convicted russian soy in the US and a US pilot shot down whilst flying spy missions in a U2 surveillance plane. Tom Hanks plays insurance lawyer James Donovan, who is

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