#Sophie hatter movie

The breathless film features several set pieces but they all have the same tired feel because we’ve seen man versus dino/raptor before. Lewis Dodgson (Campbell Scott) who is not exactly greedy but blinded by his ambitions and unwilling to take responsibility for his actions.Ĭoming to their aid is mercenary pilot Kayla Watts (DeWanda Wise) and Ramsey Cole (Mamoudou Athie), Dodgson’s mentee who seems to grow a conscience as the film progresses. The storylines converge at BioSys, run by New Age CEO Dr.

Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum)-with Pratt and Howard. The best thing about Dominion, out now on 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray/Digital HD combo pack from Universal Home Entertainment, is reuniting the original three- Dr. His Jurassic World, Fallen Kingdom, and now Dominion keep the treadmill spinning without adding enough new and interesting elements to keep things fresh. Add in some genetic shenanigans with the arrival of Maisie Lockwood (Isabella Sermon), you have some new tones to play with.ĭirector Colin Trevorrow, though, couldn’t keep corporate greed out of the playbook. The Jurassic World reboot with Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard was entertaining enough and the CGI improved so we could see more nuance among the species that were now becoming a global ecological threat. What was a noble, yet misguided plan was undermined by corporate greed, a theme that was exhausted by the time Wayne Knight was devoured. What filled in the large gaps were just…more. Since then, every sequel has paled in comparison, lifting bits and pieces of the memorable theme and elements from the first film. That film was imaginative, funny, scary, and filled with interesting doings. I remember how perfectly John Williams’ lush score for 1993’s Jurassic Park set the stage for what was to follow. Reposted from The Antick Musings of G.B.H.

This is just fine for what it is, and sets up a world where there could be plenty of other stories – I know there’s at least one more already.

#Sophie hatter movie

(I wonder if this was originally planned to be longer – maybe six issues? and it got shortened somewhere in the process.) It all runs just a hair too fast and is a hair too generically Creeping Horrors for me, but it is fun and zippy throughout, and the Fishes make good artistic choices: they do grotesquerie well and Veronica’s chapter-break art is particularly atmospheric and spooky.Īll in all, I wanted a little more How This World Works and a little less “ahh! the bugs are going to kill us!” but this is largely a Teenagers in Danger movie done as a comic, so what I wanted is somewhat outside the bounds of the genre. The last issue hits all of those Deep Secrets, some of which the reader will have guessed and some of which seem to come out of left field. There’s not a lot of room for the lore of this place to be explained, so the reader (and those four main characters) pick it up in bits and pieces as Dorkin tosses it out. It’s not that simple, of course: Blackwood has Deep Secrets.Īnd four brand-new first year students, who have all been recruited to the secret college-within-a-college at Blackwood, are going to find out about those secrets the hard way.īlackwood collects a four-issue series, so it gets going quickly – with some old guy who just did something magically dangerous and is now dictating his last words while Something happens to him – and keeps at a blistering pace throughout. Like Beasts of Burden or Calla Cthulhu – or like this book: Blackwood, written by Dorkin with art by wife-and-husband team Veronica and Andy Fish.īlackwood College seems to be just another mid-rank private learning institution, though it seems like all of their fields of study are specialized cases of anthropology with various cultural, occult, or religious bends. But somehow, along the way, his modern comics career is mostly about writing vaguely Lovecraftian-flavored fantasy/horror adventure stories for other artists to draw. (Says the man who started out as a SF editor and somehow ended up doing content marketing for corporate lawyers.) Evan Dorkin was a fiery young cartoonist in the ’80s and 90s when I discovered his work, writing and drawing id-fueled scrawls like Milk & Cheese and The Eltingville Club. All the most interesting people have the least-likely careers.