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Westworld turns 50 on November 21. Director Michael Crichton’s cautionary tale showed that high-concept feature films could act as a vehicle for social commentary. Westworld blended cinematic genres, taking into account the audience’s existing knowledge of well-worn narrative conventions and playfully subverting them as the fantasy turns to nightmare.

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American editor who worked with many celebrated authors including Anthony Burgess, Doris Lessing and Joseph Heller

Gottlieb, whose work helped shape the modern publishing canon, edited fiction by future Nobel laureates, spy novels by John le Carré, essays by Nora Ephron and Caro's nonfiction epics.

One of the greatest literary editors in modern times, Robert Gottlieb, has died

Three decades after Jurassic Park first premiered, it's still a pretty influential film in more ways than one.

Practical effects from 1993 can invoke far more awe than today’s weightlesss CGI blobs.

The director’s frightening and frenetic adventure is an ever-relevant example of hubris and the danger of greedy industrialism

Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park was filmed with groundbreaking CGI and life-sized animatronic dinosaurs which even made the crew nervous during filming in Hawaii in 1992