Oliver Stone has rewatched all four Jaws films – but it’s 1987’s Jaws: The Revenge that he’s keen to defend.

There aren’t too many people willing to stand up and take one for the team where 1987’s Jaws: The Revenge is concerned, but you can now count multiple Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone among them.

To this point, the most talked-about part of the fourth and thus-far final Jaws movie is Michael Caine’s oft-told story. It’s the one where he revealed that he’d never seen the film itself, but he had very much seen and enjoyed the house that it paid for.

Oliver Stone has been active on his Facebook page of late, with pages of thoughts on assorted movies. And he’s told how over the summer, he treated himself to a viewing of all four Jaws films. “In my shark fever, I particularly enjoyed...