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BlockbusterThe unmistakable opening bars of John Williams' score for JAWS heralded not just the arrival of a man-eating shark, but the appearance of a new type of...Read More
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HeyUGuys, January 13, 2012
...take more risks (for lots more information on that sort of thing, check out the excellent ‘Blockbuster’ by Tom Shone). That will probably be cold comfort to Ken Loach and Mike Leigh, but it should reassure, and indeed encourage most up and comers in...
HeyUGuys, January 13, 2012
...take more risks (for lots more information on that sort of thing, check out the excellent ‘Blockbuster’ by Tom Shone ). That will probably be cold comfort to Ken Loach and Mike Leigh, but it should reassure, and indeed encourage most up and comers in...
Onion AV Club, November 22, 2011
...at all unique to "The Artist" this season, or even this weekend, for that matter. So good on Tom Shone at Slate for pointing out that "The Artist" is but one example of a few films harkening back. He writes: "Come Nov. 23, cinemagoers will have a choice...
Slate Magazine, June 16, 2011
...of director J.J. Abrams. Slate's Elizabeth Weingarten on how Kodak's super 8 film changed filmmaking. Tom Shone on Super 8, X-Men: First Class and this summer's other retro blockbusters in Slate. The Amazon page for Adam Mansbach's blockbuster book Go...
New York Times, May 27, 2011
...ashen portrait of a man whose life has simply fallen away from him, like flesh from the bone. Tom Shone’s first novel, “In the Rooms,” has just been published...
Guardian.co.uk, February 8, 2012
...a very difficult aspect of life. What do you do?" Ethan Hawke Drama Richard Linklater Kristin Scott Thomas Tom Shone guardian.co.uk © 2012 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Terms & Conditions | More...
Guardian.co.uk, February 8, 2012
...a very difficult aspect of life. What do you do?" Ethan Hawke Drama Richard Linklater Kristin Scott Thomas Tom Shone guardian.co.uk © 2012 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Terms & Conditions | More...
FlickFilosopher.com, September 16, 2011
...before things start to feel derivative." "It seems as if summer blockbusters have got worse," agrees Tom Shone, the author of Blockbuster: How Hollywood Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Summer. "You compare the artistry and craftsmanship of a movie...
Torontoist, July 25, 2011
...dough, because those films (by all accounts) are awesome. But when Hollywood got into the business of, as Tom Shone describes it in his book Blockbuster, lightning bottling (essentially, faking the magic that made early blockbusters so entertaining and...
The Moviefone Blog, June 9, 2011
...the magic in three sequels and a spin-off TV series ('The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles'). As Spielberg buff Tom Shone has noted, it was as if 'Raiders' had stumbled onto the formula for the perfect action movie, yet no one could recreate it in the lab....
