The blockbuster film helmed by then-budding director Steven Spielberg swam into theaters 47 years ago today. By Ryan Parker Former Senior Reporter The “USS Indianapolis” speech, impeccably delivered ...
Steven Spielberg's Jaws took some of the most interesting aspects of the aquatic creature feature subgenre and redefined it with simplistic methods. With a shark that rarely worked, POV shots took the ...
On June 20, 1975, “Jaws” forever changed the cinematic landscape, and 50 years later, the film has just as much bite. The tagline “You’ll never go in the water again” stretched into real life. The ...
There is some other news going on in the world. For instance, this weekend marks 50 years since movies changed forever. My colleague Scott Detrow recently spoke with two NPR film lovers about a ...
In a cramped, $50-a-month room above a New Jersey furnace-supply company, Peter Benchley set to work on what he once said, half-jokingly, might be “a Ulysses for the 1970s.” A novel resulted from ...
When Steven Spielberg came to film "Jaws" on Martha's Vineyard in the summer of 1974, locals from all over the island pitched in. (Photo by Edith Blake/Courtesy Martha's Vineyard Museum) The lurking ...
What does Hollywood’s prototypical summer blockbuster say about modern masculinity? Get some answers at a 50th Anniversary City Island screening event. When I finally came face to face last year with ...