Jun 13, 2026 · 54 min · 10 segments
It's a huge week for movies. Simon confronts his 80s loving self with Disclosure Day, a Spielberg movie that only had to meet Simon's bar of being one of the best movies he will see in his life. Dan…
Dan BarrettHostSimon FosterHostWith Disclosure Day dropping into cinemas, it is the first big American summer directorial effort from Senior Spielbergo since the last Indiana Jones film all those years ago that he directed, The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and we all know how well that went down.
Now, full disclosure, no pun intended, some pun intended on my part, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Spielberg's 1977 film, is my favorite Spielberg movie.
Which is clearly 1941. which is clearly 1941, the other Spielberg film that he followed up Close Encounters with.
In fact, now that you've mentioned 1941, I might talk for 15 minutes on that instead.
In Disclosure Day, I know I was hoping for a return to that sort of Wide-eyed, staring at the sky, that sense of wonder where a lot of Spielberg characters sort of look at something with wide eyes and we don't get to see what it is.
A lot of his best movies represent that sense of wonder that he became synonymous with, certainly in his early movies.
But he's working at a time in history, let's call it 2026, when the notion of aliens, of cover-ups, of conspiracies... are very much a part of the world that he helped create.
We have this sense of wonder from his early films, particularly Close Encounters, that's now become drilled down upon so that there's a darkness to it, so that this involves government cover-up, so that it involves secrets being kept from the people by our elected officials for whatever reasons in this one.
We learn that Colin Firth's organization called Wardex has been put in charge of 79 years worth of secrets to do with alien landings, alien craft, captured biological entities, technology being used from downed extraterrestrial spacecraft.
And Josh O'Connor, who has survived an abduction as a very young lad, now has in his possession all of these secrets on a series of very flash-looking USB sticks that he's carrying with him.
Of course, Colin Firth and his henchmen are chasing him down, and that's kind of four-fifths of this movie.
With Disclosure Day dropping into cinemas, it is the first big American summer directorial effort from Senior Spielbergo since the last Indiana Jones film all those years ago that he directed, The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and we all know how well that went down.
Now, full disclosure, no pun intended, some pun intended on my part, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Spielberg's 1977 film, is my favorite Spielberg movie.
Which is clearly 1941. which is clearly 1941, the other Spielberg film that he followed up Close Encounters with.
In fact, now that you've mentioned 1941, I might talk for 15 minutes on that instead.
In Disclosure Day, I know I was hoping for a return to that sort of Wide-eyed, staring at the sky, that sense of wonder where a lot of Spielberg characters sort of look at something with wide eyes and we don't get to see what it is.
A lot of his best movies represent that sense of wonder that he became synonymous with, certainly in his early movies.
But he's working at a time in history, let's call it 2026, when the notion of aliens, of cover-ups, of conspiracies... are very much a part of the world that he helped create.
We have this sense of wonder from his early films, particularly Close Encounters, that's now become drilled down upon so that there's a darkness to it, so that this involves government cover-up, so that it involves secrets being kept from the people by our elected officials for whatever reasons in this one.
We learn that Colin Firth's organization called Wardex has been put in charge of 79 years worth of secrets to do with alien landings, alien craft, captured biological entities, technology being used from downed extraterrestrial spacecraft.
And Josh O'Connor, who has survived an abduction as a very young lad, now has in his possession all of these secrets on a series of very flash-looking USB sticks that he's carrying with him.
Of course, Colin Firth and his henchmen are chasing him down, and that's kind of four-fifths of this movie.
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