The Fabelmans

Interview: Gabriel LaBelle on playing Lorne Michaels in Saturday Night, bonding with his co-stars and favourite SNL skits

From Spielberg to Saturday Night. After making his mark as Sammy Fabelman in Steven Spielberg’s acclaimed The Fabelmans, a loosely-based detailing of the famed director’s adolescence, rising star Gabriel LaBelle is taking on another icon of the industry in Lorne Michaels, the long-running creator of the American sketch comedy program, Saturday Night Live, in Jason Reitman’s…

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Interview: Michelle Williams and Paul Dano on playing Steven Spielberg’s parents in The Fabelmans

With The Fabelmans, Steven Spielberg returns with his most personal movie yet – the legendary director’s own coming of age story set against the family drama which paralleled and ultimately intersected with his emergence as a filmmaker. Ahead of the film’s release in Australia on January 5th (read our review here), Michelle Williams and Paul…

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Interview: Tony Kushner on writing Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans; “He only likes to work on things that scare him.”

As undoubtedly one of his generations greatest, most adored filmmakers, it’s difficult to fathom a project leaving an auteur such as Steven Spielberg vulnerable.  But for his latest film The Fabelmans, a semi-autobiographical look at his own beginnings as the director he came to be, Spielberg laid his soul bare – and Tony Kushner was…

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Film Review: The Fabelmans; this is Spielberg’s story, and we’re privileged to be along for the ride

“Mommy and Daddy will be right next to you the whole time.” From the opening line of dialogue in Steven Spielberg‘s The Fabelmans, an autobiographical coming-of-age tale that boasts itself as his first writing credit since A.I. some two decades prior, we get a sense of what’s to come as, outside a New Jersey movie house in the early…

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Win a double in-season pass to see Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans

Thanks to StudioCanal we have 5 double in-season passes (Admit 2) to see Steven Spielberg‘s The Fabelmans, a semi-autobiographical story loosely based on his adolescence and first years as a filmmaker.  Winner of the People’s Choice Award at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival and nominated for 5 Golden Globes, including Best Motion Picture (Drama),…

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Steven Spielberg’s autobiographical The Fabelmans is a thing of cinematic beauty: TIFF 2022 Review

“Mommy and Daddy will be right next to you the whole time.” From the opening line of dialogue in Steven Spielberg‘s The Fabelmans, an autobiographical coming-of-age tale that boasts itself as his first writing credit since A.I. some two decades prior, we get a sense of what’s to come as, outside a New Jersey movie…

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