In this week’s newsletter: Is Nolan our last superstar director? Every one of his films is an event, clearing the release schedules and selling out cinemas
This July, competitors are running scared – …
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As Spielberg confirms whether ET was ‘slimy or dry’, we enter a new age of the celebrity interview ⊕
Veteran interviewees are forever trotting out the same anecdotes in response to unoriginal questions – until one fearless disruptor dared ask if ET had moist skin
For the most part, Steven Spielberg h…
38 days ago
Disclosure Day is great. But Spielberg overestimates our capacity for empathy ⊕⊕
Spielberg’s sci-fi blockbuster starring Emily Blunt and Josh O’Connor may be spectacular, but it misjudges how much abuse of groups we see as ‘other’ humans are prepared to tolerate
Steven Spielberg h…
4 months ago
‘The world was hard – this movie was meant to be a hug’: Ugo Bienvenu on his heartwarming eco-fable Arco ⊕⊕
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The polymath French film-maker might be a pessimist, but his Oscar-nominated animated film is one of light and hope – even if he did have to fund it himself
There are grey clouds over Los Angeles, and…
Stormy space weather may be garbling messages from aliens, new research suggests ⊖
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
Researchers who listen for signs of non-human life say signals ‘can slip below detection thresholds, even if it’s there’
Earth’s leading alien hunters believe extraterrestrials could be out there, the…
8 months ago
‘The public has been lied to’: secretly made documentary insists that aliens exist ⊕
The Age of Disclosure is a new film featuring high-ranking government officials who claim proof of extraterrestrial life has been covered up
Director Dan Farah grew up with aliens. As a child of the 8…
‘It’s time for it to end’: the stars of Stranger Things open up about their final, epic season ⊖
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After a decade, the Netflix hit is bowing out. Ahead of its last episodes, the show’s creators and cast talk about big 80s hair, recruiting a Terminator killer – and the birds Kate Bush sent them
How …
‘If I’d known the skeletons were real I’d have been even more disgusted’: how we made Poltergeist ○
‘Steven Spielberg lit up when I told him I couldn’t do the face-tearing scene. Those are his hands you see in the film. I could never have ripped my face off with the same joie de vivre’
When my agent…
9 months ago
Signs of life? Why Saturn moon offers hope of finding ET in Earth’s back yard ⊕
Discovery of wide array of carbon-based substances on Enceladus shows solar system is fertile hunting ground
From tentative evidence of habitable planets to the eyebrow-raising suggestion an interstel…
12 months ago
Index fund giant Vanguard is getting more active in its approach to market ○
Index fund giant Vanguard is taking a more active approach to managing money for ET investors in the bond market.