ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Student Life heard from Steven Spielberg during a college press conference call about his latest film, “Bridge of Spies.”

“Bridge of Spies” begins as a quiet film of footsteps and misdirection as we watch a game of cat and mouse between FBI agents and a Soviet spy. Edited with the patience of a ’70s espionage thriller, it dares to make you wait. Dialogue and music are replaced by the patter and bustle of streets and subways.

If you’ve watched any TV in the past month, there is a pretty good chance that you’ve seen commercials for “The River.” With its debut on Tuesday, it will join FOX’s “Alcatraz” as the two shows currently on air trying really hard to become the new “Lost.

Ah, the land before time existed, home to various reptilian and pre-mammalian creatures, and fathomed by Steven Spielberg himself! Hold on a second. Did I say “Steven Spielberg,” implying that this man, the creator of “E.T.” and so much else, had something to do with “The Land Before Time”? Your eyes do not deceive you, dear reader.