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rebirth

When you fill a film with mutants, you apparently create a mutant film: one whose disparate DNA sequences and mismatched body parts refuse to coalesce into a coherent organism. There are signs that this should work. It has a reasonably strong cast led by both veteran action heroes and the right kind of nerds, as […]

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How ‘Jurassic Park’ changed film-making and our view of dinosaurs

IMDB Travis Holland, Charles Sturt University In June 1993, director Steven Spielberg released a film that unleashed a wave of technological change in film-making and simultaneously helped to revive popular interest in dinosaurs. Jurassic Park, based on Michael Crichton’s novel, spawned five blockbuster sequels as well as a multitude of spin-off games, toys, novels, and […]