Jul 30, 2015
In the final installment of Arthouse Summer, the Arthouse Legends crew take on the one filmmaker no one expected to be touched; Michael Bay. In 1996, fresh off his unexpectedly successful feature debut, he released his second film with famous action producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer with action icon Sean...
Jul 24, 2015
In 1975, a young director named Steven Spielberg to tasked to helm an adaptation to Peter Benchley's bestselling novel Jaws as his first big budget film. Set in a New England island, the story of three men's fight with a menacing great white shark notoriously kept people off the beach in its wake. But does the film...
Jul 15, 2015
In 1985, Director Robert Zimeckis teamed up with former film school pal Steven Spielberg to make his most ambitious film at the time about an 80s teen who is sent 30 years into the past, meeting up and complicating the lives of the younger versions of his parents, not to mention his mad scientist mentor. Back to...
Jul 8, 2015
1939 was considered a great year in film, but it was also the year of the first genuine summer blockbuster, a film directed a both adults and children based on Frank L. Baum's book, The Wizard of Oz. The story of a Kansas farmgirl who finds herself in a fantasy world after being swept up in a cyclone has become...
Jul 1, 2015
Welcome to the first episode of Arthouse Summer, our month-long look at Summer Blockbusters that changed pop culture forever. The first episode in this series looks at not just one but TWO films that did so when filmmaker James Cameron, along with mega-star Arnold Schwarzenegger as well as sci-fi icon Linda Hamilton,...