A blog formerly known as Bookishness / By Charles Matthews

"Dazzled by so many and such marvelous inventions, the people of Macondo ... became indignant over the living images that the prosperous merchant Bruno Crespi projected in the theater with the lion-head ticket windows, for a character who had died and was buried in one film and for whose misfortune tears had been shed would reappear alive and transformed into an Arab in the next one. The audience, who had paid two cents apiece to share the difficulties of the actors, would not tolerate that outlandish fraud and they broke up the seats. The mayor, at the urging of Bruno Crespi, explained in a proclamation that the cinema was a machine of illusions that did not merit the emotional outbursts of the audience. With that discouraging explanation many ... decided not to return to the movies, considering that they already had too many troubles of their own to weep over the acted-out misfortunes of imaginary beings."
--Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

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Monday, November 10, 2025

Jurassic World: Rebirth (Gareth Edwards, 2025)

Jonathan Bailey and Scarlett Johansson in Jurassic World: Rebirth

Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Mahershala Ali, Jonathan Bailey, Rupert Friend, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Luna Blaise, David Iacono, Audrina Miranda, Philippine Velge, Bechir Sylvain, Ed Skrein. Screenplay: David Koepp. Cinematography: John Mathieson. Production design: James Clyne. Film editing: Jabez Olssen. Music: Alexandre Desplat. 

Director Gareth Edwards and writer David Koepp try nothing new in Jurassic World: Rebirth, delivering what we expect from the franchise: an intrepid heroine, a nerdy but resourceful scientist, a villain, a cute kid, scary critters, hair's-breadth escapes, and a few deaths that aren't so bloody that they'll tip the rating from PG-13 to R. Suffice it to say that the formula is getting stale. Its chief virtue is that you know what you're in for, and the movie provides it even if you won't remember a thing about it the next day. 

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