Michael Washburn

1 week ago | bookandfilmglobe.com | Michael Washburn

Fifty years ago, the original summer blockbuster stoked terror from screens across a country where even the most devoted moviegoers barely knew the name Steven Spielberg. Faster than you can yell “Shark!”, Jaws propelled the 27-year-old director to fame even as it made people afraid to go into the water. Like a lot of B-movies before and since its June 20, 1975, release, Jaws dared audiences to ask whether the monster or certain of the humans who strut across the screen are more grotesque.

1 week ago | bookandfilmglobe.com | Michael Washburn

On the 50th anniversary of ‘Jaws,’ we look at the intriguing literary persona of Robert Shaw, one of its stars

3 weeks ago | bookandfilmglobe.com | Lani Gonzalez |Stephen Macaulay |Tony Lee Moral |Michael Washburn

The always-maligned streamer has brought The Master’s movies to its platform, as well as to a 535-seat theater in Manhattan

1 month ago | nationalreview.com | Michael Washburn

1 month ago | bookandfilmglobe.com | Michael Washburn

Salman Rushdie is out as Claremont McKenna College’s commencement speaker, the school’s newspaper announced in a May 14 story. Rushdie did not give a reason for withdrawing, according to the article, but earlier coverage leaves little doubt that many people were furious over the invitation of a politically incorrect figure.