Tag: movies
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Jurassic World: Rebirth
4 outta 5 Jurassic World: Rebirth is the 7th installment of the Jurassic Park franchise with its big idea of mutant freak dinosaurs, which has already been done in the last three Jurassic World films. There’s the freaky hybrid monster Indominus Rex in Jurassic World, the freaky hybrid monster in Fallen Kingdom, and giant bugs…
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Jurassic World: Dominion (2022 review)
3 outta 5 The sixth installment in the Jurassic Park franchise goes full bore into nostalgia deep cut mining attempting to stir up some emotion. The park has been abandoned for dinosaurs romping around the world, until the last half of the movie is set at a secluded dinosaur preserve. Ultimately, Jurassic World: Dominion delivers…
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Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (’18 review)
3 outta 5 Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom manages to do something slightly, not a lot, different with the Jurassic Park formula. It’s definitely missing the excellence of the original Steven Spielberg directed Jurassic Park. It doesn’t have the compelling hook that the previous film, Jurassic World, had with the collapse of fully functional dinosaur park. …
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Jurassic World (2015 review)
4 outta 5 As the fourth instalment in the series, Jurassic World does a different thematic take on Jurassic Park: the first is a classic horror movie, Lost World is a riff on King Kong, and Jurassic Park III is B-movie cheese. With World, there’s a subversive theme of commercialization creeping into the dinosaur world…
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Blog: Ballerina (mini review)
Just trying a blog style mini review of Ballerina, although the ad campaign is giving it a long winded unweildly title of From the World of John Wick: Ballerina. Probably to get folks to see it for a John Wick universe (which apparently isn’t working very well if ticket sales are any indication, even though…
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The Phoenician Scheme
4 outta 5 Writer and director Wes Anderson’s latest film, The Phoenician Scheme, has a lot of his quirks as often happens in Wes Anderson films. It has a bit more heart than usual with following the chilly to heartwarming evolution of a relationship between a father and his estranged daughter. The movie, and the…
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Predator: Killer of Killers
4 outta 5 Predator: Killer of Killers is an awesomely gnarly addition to the Predator franchise. As an animated film, it allows for extreme camera angles and action that wouldn’t necessarily work in live action but looks dang cool in animation. As an anthology film, each story skips across the centuries of Predators enacting carnage…
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Prey (2022 review)
4 outta 5 With a back to basics approach, Prey turns out to be a shot in the arm for the long-running Predator franchise. Like the very good 2010 Predators film, Prey can be accused a wee bit of treading towards remaking the original Predator but it throws in enough differences to make this stand…
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The Predator (’18 review)
4 outta 5 Writer and director Shane Black (Lethal Weapon, Iron Man Three, The Nice Guys) has a way of combining ’80s style action throwbacks, rapid fire dialogue patter and extremely quirky characters. Now he sets his flashy style on the long running sci-fi horror franchise with The Predator. Black actually was in the original…
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Predators (’10 review)
4 out of 5 Predator is one of those rare, sturdy 80s Arnold Schwarzenegger action movies that hasn’t really dated at all. Predator 2 was just … less. Not terrible, but nowhere near as well-made. The two Alien vs. Predator movies are mediocre at best, and calling them “mediocre” is generous. So one would assume…
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