“... dreamed them up? Lynch was born in 1946, the same year as another director and eagle scout, Steven Spielberg. His childhood was a time of ‘euphoric … chrome optimism’, as he put it: everybody smiling all the time. It was almost embarrassing, he admitted, to be so ‘normal’, to have a mother called Sunny and a father who worked for the ...”

“... in Top Gun, which in turn led to the 2022 sequel which was such a big-screen success that Steven Spielberg recently told Tom Cruise his movie had ‘saved the entire theatrical industry’. It’s the Thanh Hóa Bridge’s world – we’re just living in it.)From this point on, the US military was committed to the microchip as a central part of ...”

“... love affair. Gale writes with an almost virtuoso facility. He has managed to do for Aids what Steven Spielberg did for the Holocaust. Tragedy isn’t Michael Cunningham’s objective either. His subject in Flesh and Blood is want – the gap between what one needs and what one has. It seems a modest goal for a novel so grand in scope – but ...”

“... At the end of the mangy, scrambling movie decade that gave us Robert Altman, Francis Ford Coppola, Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese, there was nary a murmur from her (just imagine what she might have made of Elaine May’s Mikey and Nicky). We know from Nunez and others that Sontag boogied in Studio 54, and yet where was her disco inferno ...”

“... storyboards for a film about artificial intelligence. Eventually, he unloaded the AI project on Steven Spielberg; Kubrick himself was posthumously thanked in the credits. The sentimental ending of AI was a predictable outcome that he would never have permitted as director under his own name.For much of the 1980s and 1990s Kubrick was also considering a ...”

“... is in fact playing a lieutenant colonel, but he might as well be a sergeant (as indeed he was in Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan), because we only ever see him in the absolute thick of combat. It’s up to him to get the job done without asking what on earth they’re doing in Mogadishu in the first place. To that extent, Thomson suggests, the ...”

“... who had expressed interest in him. He was happy to dismiss Paul Greengrass, Alex Gibney or Steven Spielberg with a flick of the tongue. The three of us went to a very pink café in the town and ordered sandwiches and cakes. We sat outside, and Julian got distracted by some young girls walking past. ‘Hold on,’ he said, and turned his ...”

“... dogs,’ a former neighbour of Zainab’s said. ‘Like, there was this guy on the 15th floor, Steven Power, he had two bull terriers, you know those dogs? Loved them, he did. Would’ve died for those two dogs.’ People in the tower would go round to Steven’s for a drink. Sometimes they sat together outside the ...”