Shaun S Needham

Steven Spielberg’s next film, Disclosure Day, is only 18 days away. In honor of the legend’s next film, I’ve gone ahead and ranked Spielberg’s 10 best films ever. If Disclosure Day even approaches this list, we’re in for a treat. #10. The Fabelmans (2022; Spielberg)

What a legend.

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning premiered one year ago this exact weekend. I gave the film four stars & stand by that review, despite the fact that most people don’t seem to appreciate the quality of this film. Christopher McQuarrie & Tom Cruise haven’t missed yet.

Marty McFly’s introduction in Back to the Future (1985) is such a perfect character intro since in about thirty seconds you completely understand who he is. The scene does all the work without ever stopping to announce it.

Commando (1985). Written to make the most of Arnold Schwarzenegger's larger than life persona, this '80s action extravaganza sees Arnie carrying huge logs one handed, throwing telephone boxes about, firing rocket launchers and taking his shirt off a lot.

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The opening parkour chase in Casino Royale (2006) instantly announced Daniel Craig’s Bond was built differently.

Let me explain exactly why Nolan has never used email, because the answer reveals more about creative output than any productivity system ever written. He writes screenplays on a computer with no internet connection. When he finished the Oppenheimer script, he flew from Los Angeles to Ireland to hand it to Cillian Murphy in person. He bans phones on every set. Tom Holland said the Odyssey cast had to sneak updates from crew members who hid their phones just to check football scores. The man who refuses to send a single email has directed 12 films grossing over $6 billion. His latest, The Odyssey, carries a $250 million budget with Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Zendaya, and Robert Pattinson. Oppenheimer made $976 million and won Best Picture. He started with a $6,000 budget on Following, shot on weekends in 1998. Every film in between turned a profit. John Leguizamo described what the Odyssey set looks like: Nolan runs it "like an indie film" because "he's not doing it by committee, not by what the studio says." That's the whole game. Email creates committees. Every CC is an invitation for someone who shouldn't be weighing in to weigh in. Every Slack thread becomes a consensus exercise that files down the sharpest edges of an original vision. Nolan eliminated the infrastructure that lets notes and second-guessing enter the process at scale. When the only way to reach a director is to walk into the room, every conversation becomes intentional. Nobody fires off a 2am concern they'd never say out loud. Nobody hides behind a forwarded chain. You either care enough to find him or you don't. That filter alone probably saves months of production overhead. He told 60 Minutes he's "just living the same way that we all used to." The difference is he built a $6 billion filmography while doing it.

Mission: Impossible (1996) first released on this day 30 years ago

Which gangster film would you add?

I was in the green room at a con last year and I let Peter Weller go ahead of me on the coffee line and he turned and said, “thank you for your cooperation” and i was made whole

Christian Bales Terminator Salvation turns 17 years old today, who enjoyed this one?

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The Rock isn’t just a great 90s action movie. It’s secretly the best Michael Bay film ever made because Nicolas Cage and Sean Connery actually forced him to care about plot. 🎬🎥 The Rock 🔥❤️

Ledger did this in every scene. Every actor who shared a frame with him in this film describes the same thing. The interrogation room. Bale kept telling Ledger he didn't need to actually hit him. "It's going to look just as good if I don't." Ledger's answer: "Go on. Go on. Go on." Slammed himself into tiled walls hard enough to crack and dent them. Bale called the commitment "total." He refused to rehearse the full Joker. No voice, no laugh, no mannerisms until the camera rolled. Every scene partner walked into take one completely blind. The money throw at Chin Han was improvised. The hospital explosion was rehearsed a dozen times with Nolan until the timing looked accidental. The hostage video was shot by Ledger alone, handheld, no crew. Nolan used the footage because a professional setup couldn't replicate it. Ledger mapped every scene to a different technique. Improvisation when genuine shock mattered. Choreography when safety required precision. Solo footage when authenticity required zero audience. The most chaotic villain performance in superhero film history was built on surgical scene-by-scene preparation. The film made $1 billion. He won a posthumous Oscar, only the second actor in history to do so. He died six months before it opened. He was 28.

What's the best 3rd instalment of a movie franchise?

This week we celebrate the 30th anniversary of Brian De Palma’s MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE. On May 22nd, 1996, the movie hit theaters and we became instantly obsessed. What’s your favorite moment from the film?

COMUNICADO Hola amigos. Me resulta desolador tener que dar de nuevo explicaciones que he repetido, una y otra vez, sobre mis objetivos en mis proyectos teatrales. La ruina de la que se me hace víctima en determinados medios no existe. Lo siento por aquellos que pudiesen encontrar un cierto placer en que esto fuese así. El proyecto del Teatro del Soho CaixaBank es un proyecto donde solo me planteo un objetivo: hacer las cosas como creo que se deben hacer y tratar de buscar la excelencia en nuestras producciones, más allá del déficit económico que estos acarreen, y que, gracias a Dios, puedo asumir sin ningún problema. Ese es el pacto con mi pasión por el teatro, por mi ciudad, y conmigo mismo. Si hubiese querido ganar dinero habría sido muy fácil. Pero he preferido hacer producciones grandes, donde he dado trabajo a cientos de personas, y he disfrutado como no lo habia hecho en toda mi carrera. La noticia es que voy a seguir haciéndolo. Lo he dicho en ruedas de prensa y en diferentes entrevistas en incontables ocasiones. El Teatro del Soho CaixaBank es una empresa privada sin ánimo de lucro que más bien opera como un teatro público. Eso quiere decir que el proyecto no recibe subvenciones de dinero público y no lo hará mientras yo esté vivo. Me hago cargo de los gastos derivados de acometer proyectos carísimos que difícilmente veréis en empresas que han de presentar una cuenta de resultados. Y aquí me gustaría agradecer la destacada participación de los magníficos patrocinadores que me acompañan en esta aventura. El año pasado metimos en el Soho, contando con la producción que recaló en Madrid, casi 200.000 espectadores. Hemos logrado romper moldes en estos años y lo vamos a seguir haciendo. No, amigos míos, no estoy arruinado, estoy a tope! Y soy amenazantemente feliz! Hasta la vista babies.

The final ride into the sunset in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) genuinely felt like saying goodbye to a legend. For a long time, it was the perfect final image for the character.