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Jurassic July - Jurassic Park 3 (2001)

Directed by: Joe Johnston
Starring: Sam Neill, William H. Macy, Téa Leoni,  Alessandro Nivola

Macy and Leoni are a divorced couple who trick Neill into helping look for their son on the infamous Isla Sorna.

Jurassic July - The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)


Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Jeff Goldblum, Julianne Moore, Pete Postlethwaite, Vince Vaughn, Peter Stormare, Richard Attenborough, Arliss Howard, Richard Schiff, Vanessa Lee Chester
Goldblum sets off to retrieve girlfriend Moore from a second dinosaur infested island.

Ten Of The Best - 1966


The ten best movies of 1966

New Release Review - Friends With Kids

Directed by: Jennifer Westfeldt
Starring: Jennifer Westfeldt, Adam Scott, Maya Rudolph, Jon Hamm, Kristen Wiig, Chris O'Dowd, Megan Fox, Edward Burns

Platonic buddies Westfeldt and Scott decide to raise a child together outside the usual romantic relationship.

New Release Review - The Amazing Spider-Man

Directed by: Marc Webb
Starring: Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone,Rhys Ifans, Sally Field, Martin Sheen, Denis Leary, Irrfan Khan, Campbell Scott, Embeth Davidtz, C. Thomas Howell

While searching for clues to his father's disappearance, high school student Garfield is bitten by a radioactive spider and gains super-powers.

New Release Review - Storage 24

Directed by: Johannes Roberts
Starring: Noel Clarke, Colin O'Donoghue, Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Laura Haddock, Ned Dennehy

Following a plane crash, several people are trapped in a storage facility with a violent alien being.

New Release Review - Your Sister's Sister

Directed by: Lynn Shelton
Starring: Mark Duplass, Emily Blunt, Rosemarie DeWitt

Blunt sends Duplass off to her family's island cabin to contemplate his life. There he meets her lesbian sister and ends up drunkenly bedding her.

Jurassic July - Jurassic Park (1993)

Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Richard Attenborough, Jeff Goldblum, Bob Peck, Joseph Mazzello, Ariana Richards, Samuel L. Jackson, Wayne Knight

All hell breaks lose when Attenborough attempts to impress a group of scientists with his island of cloned dinosaurs.

Pre-Code Retrospective - Street Scene (1931)

Directed by: King Vidor
Starring: Sylvia Sidney, William Collier Jr, Estelle Taylor, Beulah Bondi

Tensions run high in a multi-ethnic neighborhood during a New York heatwave.

Great Movie Posters - Jurassic Park


First Time Watches - June 2012

Tora Tora Tora (1970)
Co-directed in English and Japanese by Richard Fleischer and Kinji Fukasaku, this shows a gripping story doesn't need any relatable characters or trite romances (are you listening Mister Bay?). A cast of some of the best character actors of the era coupled with the elaborate and realistic staging of the Pearl Harbour attack make this compelling viewing. 8/10

New Release Review - Killer Joe

Directed by: William Friedkin
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Emile Hirsch, Juno Temple, Gina Gershon, Thomas Haden Church

Haden Church and son Hirsch hire crooked cop McConaughey to kill Haden Church's ex-wife for insurance money. In lieu of payment he takes the mentally challenged Temple as a retainer.

Superman Summer - Superman (1948)

Directed by: Spencer Gordon Bennet, Thomas Carr
Starring: Kirk Alyn, Noel Neill, Tommy Bond, Carol Forman, Pierre Watkin

Superman is dispatched to Earth as an infant to avoid the destruction of his home planet krypton. As an adult, his alter-ego, Clark Kent, takes a job at the Daily Planet newspaper in the city of Metropolis. It isn't long before Superman is called into action to avert the evil plans of a villainess known as the Spider Lady.

New Release Review - Brave

Directed by: Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman, Steve Purcell
Starring: Kelly MacDonald, Billy Connolly, Emma Thompson, Julie Walters, Robbie Coltrane, Craig Ferguson

Ten Of The Best - 1957


The ten best movies of 1957

New Release Review - Chernobyl Diaries

Directed by: Bradley Parker
Starring: Jesse McCartney, Jonathan Sadowski, Olivia Dudley, Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Dimitri Diatchenko, Devin Kelley, Nathan Phillips

A group of tourists find themselves stranded in the ruins of Chernobyl but soon realise they are not alone.

New Release Review - Lay The Favorite

Directed by: Stephen Frears
Starring: Rebecca Hall, Bruce Willis, Vince Vaughn, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Joshua Jackson, Laura Prepon, Frank Grillo, Joel Murray, John Carroll Lynch, Corbin Bernsen

Former stripper Hall becomes involved in the world of Las Vegas bookmakers.

New Release Review - The Five Year Engagement

Directed by: Nicholas Stoller
Starring: Jason Segel, Emily Blunt, Chris Pratt, Alison Brie, David Paymer, Mimi Kennedy, Dakota Johnson

Segel and Blunt's plans to get hitched are repeatedly put on hold as their relationship stagnates.