Just what made Jaws Jaws? There was the shark, yes, the ravenous predator at the center of the 1975 movie. And of course, there was also its iconic two-note score, so effective that it has become a ...

“Jaws,” which hit theaters 50 years ago next Friday, is known for making many splashes. It was the first hit for a 27-year-old Steven Spielberg, the man who’d go on to become one of Hollywood’s ...

Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss, and Robert Shaw led a cast rounded out by Martha's Vineyard locals. Director Steven Spielberg and author Peter Benchley both expressed regret over how the film ...

Hi there! It’s Rosanna Xia, coastal reporter and director of the Los Angeles Times environmental documentary “Out of Plain Sight,” filling in for Sammy Roth. For this week’s edition of Boiling Point, ...

Half a century later, Steven Spielberg's formative summer blockbuster looks more than ever like a New Hollywood fusion of Hitchcock and Altman. It’s a cornerstone of movie mythology that “Jaws” and ...