The 3 Movies & Shows You Need To See This May/June 2022
Jurrasic World: Dominion
Finally the Jurassic World Trilogy is reaching its natural conclusion, while feeling like it blows the doors wide open on keeping this beloved series going for years to come.
Jurassic World has struggled to hit the bar set by the first two Jurassic Park movies, its massive budget shunting interesting character moments out in the cold in favour of big bombastic CGI moments. With that said, the Jurassic series has been heading inexorably toward Dominion since they first dabbled with the idea in The Lost World’s disastrous third act.
After the events of Fallen Kingdom, dinosaurs are let loose onto the mainland and are causing havoc everywhere. Dominion picks up four years later, marking the gap between the two films. Modern civilisation suddenly finds itself in an uncomfortable new era where they aren’t the top of the food chain anymore. This final entry in the series brings back the old crew from the first Jurassic Park films including Sam Neil, Jeff Goldblum, and Laura Dern to bookend the adventure with some solid nostalgia.
In regards to how the two different casts will mix, director Colin Trevorrow tells us not to expect the usual Hollywood storyline.
“Laura [Dern], Sam [Neill], and Jeff [Goldblum] have as much screen time in the film as Bryce and Chris do. They’re not together the entire time, but we are following both of their stories equally, and you have a sense that they’re going to collide at a certain point … there’s this tension. It’s not structured necessarily in a way that we’re used to seeing our Hollywood movies structured. But it works.”
As a fan of the original films, Dominion has found a way to win me over. Well played.
The Boys: Season 3
The great thing about comics is that they have been over the superhero genre longer than movie goers have, leaving filmmakers a rich stock of subversions of the genre to work with. Another season of The Boys is landing and with it the panacea for the sickly sweet treacle of Marvel. If you’re looking for something that brings superhero’s down to earth and see how they’d act in an environment of sponsorship deals and absolute power, definitely cut through the first two seasons right now.
Doctor Strange: Multiverse of Madness
Benedict Cumberbatch artfully reprises his role as Doctor Strange. Homework before diving into this one include the first Doctor Strange film, Avengers Endgame, and WandaVision if you can be bothered. Doctor Strange has already dabbled once for Spiderman, but now he’s opening a gate to the multiverse and creating all sorts of problems for himself.
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