Bryce Dallas Howard
While not as predictable as the pattern, Argylle doesn’t have much surprise despite its cast and energy.
The final installment of the World trilogy, Jurassic Park Dominion breaks through with more dinosaurs and a mixed bag for audiences.
This is the third installment of the Jurassic World franchise, with new and returning faces.
The Mandalorian is nowhere near the heights of many other prestige TV shows but at the very least it’s entertaining.
A Dog’s Way Home is predictable but effective – although its cuteness does eventually outstay its welcome.
It’s hard not to think of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom as just a rinse-repeat of nearly every other film in this now 25-year-old franchise.
Gold features a flashy performance by Matthew McConaughey, yet the remainder of the film surrounding him fails to impress.
If you’ve ever wondered why fantasy has always been a popular genre in fiction, it might help knowing that all fiction is a form of fantasy, and that stories are a type of self-preservation. Take Martin Scorsese’s wildly entertaining and greatly underappreciated Shutter Island, in which the main character, Teddy, is on a mission to prove he is innocent, only for the truth to reveal that he is anything but. As Teddy becomes fully aware, he finds out that he has created an elaborate fantasy, a hyper-fiction as a ruse to shield himself from the harsh reality.
Two decades after the original Jurassic Park became the most successful film of all time at that point and ushered in the era of CGI, the blockbuster cinema landscape is very different. With Marvel Cinematic Universe, franchises six or seven sequels deep, and young-adult dystopias dominating the big releases more and more every year, original screenplays or adaptations of adult-oriented novels are struggling to make an impact – it is inconceivable that Steven Spielberg’s classic could have been released today with anything near the same level of success as in 1993. And so while the original film has a devoted fan base, few would have thought there was that much demand for a new Jurassic Park film, especially after its two increasingly inferior sequels.
