It's easy to argue that the final shot of a film is its most important. It's the final impression a film can make on an ...

Aang going down in the Avatar State in the finale was foreshadowed since the Spirit Library sequence. Yangchen told him in ...

Ash begins with Riya Ortiz waking inside a blood-soaked station on KOI-442, the distant planet called Ash, with no memory of ...

Horror movies are solid investments for studios because they're usually so cheap, but these are the most expensive horror ...

Timothy Olyphant is one cool dude. We know it. Does he know it? There’s something of Clint Eastwood and Paul Newman to his screen persona, Empire suggests — making it clear that we don’t want to ...

When fans talk about Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull , two moments almost always come up. The first is Indy surviving a nuclear blast by jumping inside a refrigerator, a scene that ...

The Spielberg film that left me most confused and disappointed. Originally conceived by fellow legendary filmmaker Stanley Kubrick, this project soon turned into a dream collabora ...

The quality and scope of his films make any attempt to rank them a fool’s errand: nevertheless, that’s exactly what I’ve tried to do below ...

With 'Disclosure Day,' the director returns to a longtime preoccupation. Two Times staffers explore his ongoing fascination with extraterrestrials.

Half a century after “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” the director returns to the subject of UFOs with “Disclosure Day.” His science fiction films are informed by his fascination with alien ...

Has any filmmaker had as much of an impact on cinema and pop culture at large as Steven Spielberg? The director of many of the greatest blockbusters, most stirring dramas, most beloved kids’ films, ...