How ‘Imaginary’ Shall We Be?

March 12, 2024

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Da Bear (CREDIT: Parrish Lewis/Lionsgate)

Starring: DeWanda Wise, Pyper Braun, Tom Payne, Taegen Burns, Betty Buckley, Matthew Sato, Verónica Falcón, Dane DiLiegro

Director: Jeff Wadlow

Running Time: 104 Minutes

Rating: PG-13

Release Date: March 8, 2024 (Theaters)

I imagine you might like to know what I thought about Imaginary, and if perhaps we should all spend some time in our own Imaginationlands. Well, that depends on how active your imagination is! Mine’s pretty active, and I’ve made a concerted effort to remain in touch with it into adulthood. Seeing Imaginary has helped to fuel that desire once more, even if it wasn’t as super-duper as I hoped it could have been. So thank you, Chauncey Bear! Maybe you shouldn’t play with young Alice anymore, but you were definitely exactly what I needed you to be.

Grade: Baby Bear

‘Jurassic World: Dominion’ Takes it Worldwide

June 8, 2022

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Jurassic World Dominion (CREDIT: John Wilson/Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment)

Starring: Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Sam Neill, DeWanda Wise, Mamoudou Athie, BD Wong, Omar Sy, Isabella Sermon, Campbell Scott, Justice Smith

Director: Colin Trevorrow

Running Time: 146 Minutes

Rating: PG-13 for Intense Dino Chomps

Release Date: June 10, 2022

What would happen if dinosaurs came back to life and then spread out all over the world? Dr. Ian Malcolm would crack jokes about it, you can be sure of that! Of course, that’s what always happens whenever Jeff Goldblum is in a Jurassic Park/World movie, even when the dino habitat is more contained. And that really illuminates how Dominion is just like any other movie in this series. It contains all the typical narrow escapes from T-Rexes and velociraptors, just with some Indiana Jones-style globetrotting thrown in. There’s at least a hint at first that things will be different this time around, as an opening news report seems to indicate that we’re in store for a probing examination about the global consequences of Arrogant Science Run Amok. But instead we mostly get everyone chasing after a MacGuffin. That’s understandable, because the MacGuffin is also one of the main characters. But still, the appeal of Dominion can be boiled down to: A Bigger Scale, But Also Everything is the Same.

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