The Latest Breaking News from Matt Hooper

Richard Dreyfuss has recalled the moment he had to tell Jaws director Steven Spielberg that Robert Shaw - who had played shark hunter Quint in the blockbuster - had died in 1978.

Lego Jaws (21350) review: "An impressive homage to a cinematic masterpiece, though the original sets have a hidden issue"

When I was eight years old, on a Saturday night before surf lifesaving training, my dad put on the film Jaws and it changed my life forever.

It’s hard to believe Steven Spielberg was just 27 when he directed Jaws. Before that he’d mostly worked in television, helming episodes of detective show Columbo and the acclaimed TV movie Duel. He’d made just one theatrical feature, The Sugarland Express.

Jaws turns 50 on June 20. Last year, Quentin Tarantino called Stephen Spielberg’s film “possibly the greatest movie ever made”. Though he was quick to add that it isn’t the best film in terms of script, cinematography or acting, he was convinced that its overall quality as a movie remains…

The next pick in our ongoing series of comfort movie favourites is Steven Spielberg’s defining shark thriller

How many times have you come out of the cinema and heard someone snidely remark they preferred the book, as though this somehow connects them to a richer, more highbrow tradition?

Fictional scientist Matt Hooper, played by Richard Dreyfuss in the 1975 film Jaws, subscribed to the theory of shark territoriality. But his real-life counterparts beg to differ.

The footage, which has gone viral on social media, shows the spine-chilling moment the sea ripples as the massive shark edges it way towards the petrified man and his boat