Steven Spielberg was onstage at Toronto's Princess of Wales Theatre, talking about the End or, more precisely, how his new movie memory piece, "The Fabelmans," isn't quite the End or a signal that he's retiring, but simply an acknowledgment that the clock is ticking.
"It wasn't now or never," he said of making the long-gestating film, a crowd-pleasing look back on his childhood and a burgeoning passion for making movies, "but I almost felt that way."
And you don't have to be a 75-year-old filmmaking legend to relate in some way to Spielberg's sentiments. If you care about movies — and I'm guessing that if you're reading this you have at least a passing interest — you've probably felt that it might be now or never for the medium itself, particularly if you've recently wandered through a deserted multiplex, silent barns that at times feel like Blockbuster Video stores circa 2010.
