Did you miss, in 1977, Close Encounters of the Third Kind? [View all]

In case you did, Steven Spielberg made it again, the 2026 version.

It's called Disclosure Day.

My wife wanted to see it, so I went with her because of the blistering heat.

Look, I had a good time, because when I go anywhere with my wife, it's a good time.

By the way, I really admire the actress Emily Blunt - her performance as Kitty Oppenheimer in the movie Oppenheimer was absolutely great in the way she captured that complex historical figure - and I really like the actor Josh O'Conner, who I loved in the 3rd "Knives Out" movie Wake Up Dead Man. (Colin Firth, as the "bad guy" in Disclosure Day is wasted in this role, a truly great actor forced into being cardboard. Too bad...)

Both Blunt and O'Connor act well in this movie, because, well they're good actors.

All that said...

Steven Spielberg has made some great movies I think, Lincoln, Empire of the Sun and Schindler's List come to mind, but as he nears the end of his life, he's kind of regressed to "ET" meets "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" meets "Disclosure Day." The last two are basically the same movie, the latter simply updated from the former with a little more splash and effects substituting for Devil's Tower.

I'm not a fan of "science" fiction, so take my word for what it's worth. Real science is so much better than "science" fiction in my opinion, always far more interesting.

For the record, if I recall, although I saw them, probably at the behest of some girlfriend or another at the time - I don't actually remember why I saw them - I thought "ET" and "Close Encounters" were eye rollers. My girlfriend of the last 42 years wanted to see this one, and being with her, I enjoyed it, because I was with her, but well...I want to be a good sport of a husband.

I don't know why I felt like doing a movie review, but I just did anyway.