The Spielberg Blogathon

A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001): A Film by Steven Spielberg
by Carson Lund
Frankly, A.I. possesses qualities of the termite and the elephant: on the one hand, there is the haphazard, messy presentation in service of a scatterbrained script that bursts with potentially intriguing ideas and on the other, there is the superficial...

E.T. The Sacred Cow
by Andreas
All of this is not to say that I find E.T. totally worthless. I just don’t think it deserves the enthusiastic critical accolades it’s received since its release, setting it up as this unassailable masterpiece. For me, it’s symptomatic of Spielberg’s...

Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal or Before the Age of Spielberg
by Greg Ferrara
Steven Spielberg doesn't take part in the documentary (but is thanked in the closing credits) although I'm sure if the same doc were put together now he'd be front and center. Two of Pal's biggest works in the fifties have either already been remade...

A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001): Look Again
by Adam Gentry
See, the ending is anything but a happy one. It is impossible to recreate all that an individual human being is from a single strand of DNA, even in the fantastical world of A.I. Artificial Intelligence. Even if it were possible to recreate a person...