Tag: Steven Spielberg

• Ready Player One Review – Hypersaturation

  

  There’s a scene about midway through when Ben Mendelsohn’s, sell out, stuffed shirt, businessman bad guy is laying out his evil plan. After they take control of The Oasis, the virtual reality game that has become the bedrock of society in the ruined and desolate world of the 2040s, they’ll jam it full of advertising. In a cute little note, they throw up graphics reminiscent of crappy, free-to-play mobile games. ‘We estimate’, he says, ‘that we can fill roughly eighty percent of the visual field with ads before the player will have a seizure.

  E Warren

  April 5, 2018

  Film, Review

  Amblin Entertainment, Ben Mendelsohn, Cinema, Ernest Cline, Film, Films, Lena Waithe, Mark Rylance, Movie, Movies, Olivia Cooke, Opinion, Ready Player One, Review, Steven Spielberg, Two Stars, Tye Sheridan, Warner Bros

• The Post Review – StreepHanksThePost

  

  The story of The Post is that Spielberg first read the script under a year ago. While working postproduction on Ready Player One he somehow got permission from Warner to go make the thing.

  E Warren

  February 1, 2018

  Film, Review

  20th Century Fox, Bob Odenkirk, Cinema, Drama, Dreamworks, Film, Films, Five Stars, Meryl Streep, Movie, Movies, Opinion, Participant Media, Period, Review, Sarah Paulson, Steven Spielberg, The Post, Tom Hanks