Four years after Samsung released the original Galaxy Z Fold, Google is daring to challenge the electronics giant with its own Pixel Fold.

The dimensions of the Pixel Fold are different — more wide than tall — but the form factor is selling the same 2-in-1 dream: it's a regular phone when it's folded and a tablet when it's unfolded.

Google's foldable phone gets a lot right for a first try, like its almost gapless (but not creaseless) foldable display and strong battery life, but Samsung is on its fourth version of the Z Fold with the fifth generation expected to launch at the end of July.

At the end of the day, when you compare the Pixel Fold and Galaxy Z Fold 4 — both $1,800 foldables — it's easily apparent that Samsung has the upper hand with more features. The Pixel Fold is an impressive feat of engineering, but for $1,800, it's missing the bells and whistles that a phone with this kind of price tag should have.

Once upon a time, the summer blockbuster season was limited to just that — the summer. But over the past decade, it seems like blockbuster season has expanded to fill the entire year.

Marvel Studios, the most reliable blockbuster machine of the modern era, used to only release movies between May and August. Then, in 2018, Black Panther dropped in February, once a dead zone for major releases, and quickly became the biggest movie of the year. Now, rarely does a month pass without a mega-budget, VFX-filled franchise installment.

And that is, essentially, our modern definition of a blockbuster: big, loud, full of CGI, and (most importantly) familiar. These days, it often feels less like a blockbuster is something we’re genuinely excited for and more like something we’re culturally obligated to see. It’s safe, it’s predictable, and all those visual effects will look better on the big screen than on our TV.

But how did we get here? And is there any hope for a different kind of blockbuster movie? To answer those questions, we have to go back to the director who started it all: Steven Spielberg.