JURASSIC WORLD REBIRTH
Jurassic World Rebirth is a 2025 American science fiction thriller film directed by Gareth Edwards and written by David Koepp.[3] A standalone sequel to Jurassic World Dominion (2022), it is the fourth Jurassic World film and the seventh installment overall in the Jurassic Park franchise. The film stars Scarlett Johansson, Mahershala Ali, Jonathan Bailey, Rupert Friend, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, and Ed Skrein.
Work on the film began shortly after the release of Dominion, when executive producer Steven Spielberg recruited Koepp to help him develop a new installment in the series. Koepp previously co-wrote the original Jurassic Park film (1993) and wrote its sequel, The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997). Development of Rebirth was first reported in January 2024. Edwards was hired as director a month later, and casting commenced shortly thereafter. Principal photography occurred in Thailand, Malta, and the United Kingdom from June to September 2024.
Jurassic World Rebirth premiered on June 17, 2025, at Odeon Luxe Leicester Square in London and was released in the United States and Canada on July 2. The film has received mixed reviews from critics.
Premise
Five years after the events of Jurassic World Dominion, Earth’s environment has largely proven inhospitable to the remaining populations of dinosaurs and other de-extinct prehistoric animals. The surviving creatures now reside in remote, tropical locales, reminiscent of the environments where they once flourished. Zora Bennett, a covert operative, is recruited by ParkerGenix, a pharmaceutical company, to collaborate with paleontologist Dr. Henry Loomis and team leader Duncan Kincaid on a top-secret mission.[4][5][6]
They infiltrate Ile Saint-Hubert, a forbidden island in the Atlantic Ocean, once used by InGen as a dinosaur research facility.[7] The team’s objective is to locate the three largest remaining prehistoric species from land, sea, and air. The biomaterials of these creatures hold the key to a revolutionary drug capable of saving countless human lives. Along the way, the team encounters a shipwrecked civilian family, and both groups find themselves stranded. They discover that the island is home to mutated, failed dinosaur experiments that have thrived in isolation for decades.[4][5][8] Among them is the Distortus rex, a deformed, mutant Tyrannosaurus rex with six limbs.[9]
Cast
- Scarlett Johansson as Zora Bennett, a covert operations expert[10]
- Mahershala Ali as Duncan Kincaid, Zora’s team leader[4]
- Jonathan Bailey as Dr. Henry Loomis, a paleontologist[10]
- Rupert Friend as Martin Krebs, a pharmaceutical representative[10]
- Manuel Garcia-Rulfo as Reuben Delgado, the father of a shipwrecked civilian family[10]
- Luna Blaise as Teresa Delgado, Reuben’s eldest daughter[10]
- David Iacono as Xavier Dobbs, Teresa’s boyfriend[10][7]
- Audrina Miranda as Isabella Delgado, Reuben’s youngest daughter[10]
- Ed Skrein as Bobby Atwater, a member of Zora’s team[10][7]
- Philippine Velge as Nina, a member of Zora’s team[10][7]
- Bechir Sylvain as Leclerc, a member of Zora’s team[11]
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40 ACRES
40 Acres is a 2024 Canadian post-apocalyptic thriller written and directed by R. T. Thorne (in his feature directorial debut). The film stars Danielle Deadwyler as a matriarch of descendants of African American farmers who settled in 1875 in rural Canada after the American Civil War. They are trying to survive in a decimated future two hundred years later. It is set to be released by Mongrel Media in Canada.[2]
The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 6, 2024.[3]
Cast
- Danielle Deadwyler as Hailey Freeman
- Kataem O’Connor as Emanuel Freeman
- Jaeda LeBlanc as Danis Freeman
- Michael Greyeyes as Galen
- Milcania Diaz-Rojas as Dawn
- Leenah Robinson as Raine
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KILL THE JOCKEY
Kill the Jockey (Spanish: El jockey)[1] is a 2024 sports comedy-drama thriller film co-written and directed by Luis Ortega, starring Nahuel Pérez Biscayart alongside Úrsula Corberó and Daniel Giménez Cacho.
The film premiered at the 81st Venice International Film Festival, where it competed for the Golden Lion and the Queer Lion.[2][3] The film was selected as the Argentine entry for Best International Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards but was not nominated.[4]
Premise
Jockeys Abril and Remo race for a powerful mobster named Sirena until Remo accidentally kills a valuable race horse. Abril must find Remo in Buenos Aires and bring him to safety before Sirena tracks him down.[5]
Cast
- Nahuel Pérez Biscayart as Remo Manfredini/Dolores “Lola”, a jockey who faces substance use issues.
- Úrsula Corberó as Abril, Remo’s pregnant girlfriend and a fellow jockey, debating whether to continue her career or start a family.
- Daniel Giménez Cacho as Rubén Sirena, a mobster
- Daniel Fanego[1] as Fanego, Sirena’s henchman
- Osmar Núñez[1] as Luis, Sirena’s henchman
- Roberto Carnaghi[1] as Oscar, Sirena’s henchman
- Luis Ziembrowski[1]
- Jorge Prado[1]
- Adriana Aguirre[1]
- Mariana Di Girólamo[1] as Ana, a fellow jockey who later starts an affair with Abril
- Roly Serrano[1]
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VIDEOHEAVEN
Videoheaven is a 2025 documentary film which explores the role of video stores in Hollywood cinema. It was directed by Alex Ross Perry.[1]
The film premiered at the Rotterdam International Film Festival in January 2025.
Documentary
As VHS became the dominant home video format in the early 1980s and consumer demand for new and classic films grew, the need for a space where people could rent the still-expensive-to-purchase tapes created an opening for the proliferation of the video store. While the shift from the cinema to the home had ramifications that the film industry is still contending with, it also opened new, exciting horizons for cinephiles to interact with the medium. Barriers of time collapsed, and suddenly the full scope of film history was available to fans—the ability to manipulate movies using simple tools like fast forward, rewind, and pause functions on a VCR gave movie buffs the power to engage with their favorite films in entirely new ways. The video store provided a forum to discuss these films with fellow cinephiles. Factors like these gave rise to the video store’s power as a consumer mecca and a sociocultural hub.
Drawing inspiration from the work of scholars like Daniel Herbert and filmmakers like Thom Anderson, whose seminal Los Angeles Plays Itself is a crucial progenitor, auteur filmmaker and pop culture public intellectual Alex Ross Perry’s 10-years-in-the-making essay-documentary Videoheaven is a fascinating, beautiful, absorbing exploration of the video store as a vitally important site of film culture. Mining footage from an eclectic range of sources and aided by a wryly evocative voiceover from Maya Hawke, Perry’s latest is a crucial contribution to the canon of films about film culture. —Jason Gutierrez.
Cast & Credits
Alex Ross Perry
Producer
Screenwriter
Editor
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