#steven-spielberg

#steven-spielberg

Steven Spielberg is synonymous with science fiction, and he's especially associated with sci-fi stories that feature aliens, but it's actually been 20 years since the director of and Close Encounters of the Third Kind gave us a glimpse of extraterrestrial life. Next summer, however, he's going back to basics with another tale of alien arrival, this time with a conspiracy twist.

Stranger Things has always been in conversation with pop culture. The surprise is how much pop culture has talked back. It's one thing to have viewers and critics draw parallels between the Duffer Brothers series and the works of Stephen King and Steven Steven Spielberg. It's quite another thing to have Stephen King and Steven Spielberg themselves make those comparisonsand declare themselves fans.

John Towner Williams had music in his bones from an early age - and as a new biography reveals, a chance encounter with legendary director Steven Spielberg soon led to some of the most iconic film scores of modern times Imagine a crowded beach in Amity, a boy on a lilo, a fin coming, and no da-dum. Or Superman taking off in an aural vacuum.

The folly of man, the chaos of progress, the forking around, the finding out, the dinosaurs—God, the dinosaurs.

"If you missed the big 50th-anniversary party for Jaws, it's not too late to celebrate Steven Spielberg's 1975 classic. This film captures a Beach town's Fourth of July terror against a shark."

"The only time Steven and I parted ways creatively was there's a whole B story in 'E.T.' about E.T. having a love affair with Mary, a love crush on Mary."