Tag: adventure
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Jaws
Jaws is a landmark film for several reasons. It was the first summer blockbuster and changed the way movies are released from that moment forward. It launched the career of Steven Spielberg who had only directed one feature film up to that point. Spielberg was not the studio’s first choice. He was only 26 when…
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The Four Feathers (2002)
I love a good adventure. There’s something about British soldiers in their spiffy red coats off fighting the barbarian hordes… or at least there used to be, before political correctness made these stories difficult to pull off. The golden age of this kind of filmmaking was back in the 40s and 50s, when people still…