Tag Archives: Steven Spielberg

February 3, 2026

TV Tuesday 2/3/26

I think it must be the case that, once baseball season is over, what hours I do devote to watching TV fill with other things, and I catch up on shows or movies I neglected during the six-month summer season (162 games for your own team plus any other games you watch).

As such, I have a lot to report since the last TV Tuesday back in early December — two months’ worth of viewing. Even better, no ranting or venting (well, maybe just a little), and I even have some movies and shows to recommend. Some highly.

Starting with a very good vampire movie.

4 Comments | tags: Ben Affleck, Japanese anime, Knives Out, Matt Damon, Rian Johnson, Sherlock Holmes, Steven Spielberg, vampires, William Gibson | posted in Movies, TV Tuesday

August 18, 2014

Spielberg: Not A Fan

By Wyrd Smythe

For the record: I am not a fan of Steven Spielberg‘s movies. I do not like them on DVD; I do not like them in theater three. I do not like them on VHS; I do not like them — I said that, yes! And let me be clear: sometimes when I say I don’t like something, it means I’m neutral; I neither like nor dislike. But in this case, I do mean I actively dislike his movies.

I will readily agree that this, almost universally beloved, director-writer-producer is brilliant at his craft. He’s clearly one of the most successful directors in modern movie history. But I stand with a (very!) small number of critics who find his movies morally shallow and blatantly emotional. Even worse, they are peppered with what I call “Spielbergisms.”

It all started with the damned mashed potatoes.

29 Comments | tags: Amy Madigan, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Dr. Strangelove, Field of Dreams, Indiana Jones, Minority Report, Philip K. Dick, Richard Dreyfuss, Spielbergism, Stanley Kubrick, Steven Spielberg, Teri Garr | posted in Movies