[This story contains spoilers for Warner Bros.’ Ready Player One.] Ready Player One isn’t trying to do too much aside from creating a perpetual nostalgia machine. By the end of the film ...

By Ciara Wardlow [This story contains spoilers for Ready Player One] Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One plays a little fast and loose with Ernest Cline’s 2011 novel, changing key scenes and ...

Director Steven Spielberg traveled to the South by Southwest Film Festival on Sunday to unveil the world premiere of his upcoming film, Ready Player One. While there were, ironically, some ...

In the wrong hands, a big-screen adaptation of the sprawling, fandom-fueled Ready Player One had flop written all over it, but Spielberg has rarely (if ever) been the wrong hands for any project ...

In perhaps the most inevitable translation of a hit book and movie into the immersive future, Ready Player One author Ernest Cline and Dan Farah, who produced the book’s film adaptation ...

Steven Spielberg’s “Ready Player One” might mark the beginning of a new era in filmmaking or the end of an old one, but either way it feels like a failed experiment in building a new story ...

Warning: There are spoilers ahead if you haven't seen "Ready Player One." "Ready Player One" changes up a lot from the book, and for the most part, it makes for a better story. But there's one ...

Heather Newman has covered business, gaming and tech for decades. The America of Ernest Cline's Ready Player One is dystopian -- post-energy crisis, life is kind of a bummer -- in all but its view ...

With one line, the ending of Ready Player One tries to assert that a better future is on the horizon for the economically destitute and imaginatively bankrupt society. But the ending of the film ...

Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One was a primed-for-SXSW premiere. It’s based on a book written by Austin author Ernie Cline, it stars hometown boy Tye Sheridan, and it’s about virtual ...

In the dystopian sci-fi novel and film “Ready Player One,” future humans spend much of their lives in the OASIS, a virtual reality wonderland in which “the limits of reality are your own ...

This is a spoiler-free advance review of Ready Player One from its premiere at SXSW. Though its pop culture Easter egg-filled trailers might have suggested otherwise, Steven Spielberg’s ...