Movies are dreams and as a teenager I wanted to make movies on a Super 8 Camera I convinced my dad to buy for me just like Steven Spielberg.

However, my dreams of movie making didn't get as far as Spielbergs.

After producing a few short films with like minded friends living in Sydney suburbia and attempting to get grants and study at AFTRS my dreams turned to Radio, mainly because it was an easy, natural progression for me, but I never lost my passion for filmmaking.

"The Fablemans" director and co-screenwriter Steven pursued his dreams and it's the nucleus of those early days that this movie focuses on while using a fake family name, although both Spiel and Fable mean story.

Michelle Williams plays the artistic, piano playing mum "Mitzi" (whose costumes and jewellery are all literally from the Spielberg playbook of his real mum).

Paul Dano meanwhile is his more mechanically/technically minded dad "Burt" who also supports his sons movie making dreams in a different way.

While Gabriel LaBelle plays teenage "Sam" in this coming of age story.

A story I can personally relate to on so many levels, even down to both our parents divorce.

It's the movie some of us have been waiting 45 years for Spielberg to make.

Seth Rogen as "Uncle Bennie" is the one piece of this puzzle that doesn't fit with his annoying, nervous laugh.

It's a pivotal role to this story arc though.

Steven Spielberg once said, "The bigger we dream the more we can expect to achieve".

"The Fablemans" is his story made by himself in his own lifetime and only able to fully be told after the deaths of both his parents, due to sensitive subject matter.

What was the first film you saw in cinemas that made you fall in love with movies?

For me it was "Mary Poppins" closely followed by "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang".

4.5/5*