Posts tagged sequel
Review: Jurassic World: Rebirth (2025)
Review: Jurassic World: Rebirth (2025)

Jurassic World: Rebirth recognizes the core appeal and best aspects of previous Jurassic movies and delivers on these in a capable manner.

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Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAnton BergstromJurassic World: Rebirth, Jurassic World, Jurassic Park, Jurassic series, Gareth Edwards, David Koepp, Scarlett Johansson, Mahershala Ali, Jonathan Bailey, Rupert Friend, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Luna Blaise, David Iacono, Audrina Miranda, Philippine Velge, Ed Skrein, summer blockbuster, blockbusters, sequel, soft reboot, Franchise World, The Island of Dr. Moreau, H. G. Wells, King KongComment
Review: Twisters (2024)
Review: Twisters (2024)

The most fun classical Hollywood blockbuster since 2022’s Top Gun: Maverick.

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Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAnton BergstromTwisters, Twister, Lee Isaac Chung, Mark L. Smith, Joseph Kosinski, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Glen Powell, Anthony Ramos, Brandon Perea, Maura Tierney, Sasha Lane, Tunde Adebimpe, Harry Hadden-Paton, tornadoes, disaster movie, romance, action, Minari, Top Gun: Maverick, meta, legacy sequel, sequel, The Wizard of Oz, YouTube, country, Middle America, Oklahoma, man vs. nature, weather Comments
Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

A rare sequel that goes in a different direction, darker and deeper, The Empire Strikes Back permanently transformed what the Star Wars saga would be.

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Star Wars, Reviews, Flash BackAnders BergstromStar Wars, Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back, George Lucas, Irvin Kershner, Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams, Frank Oz, Anthony Daniels, David Prowse, Kenny Baker, Leigh Brackett, Lawrence Kasdan, science fiction, sequel, adventure, 1980 Comment
Review: Jurassic World (2015)
Review: Jurassic World (2015)

Successes and blunders in this franchise revival.

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Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAnton Bergstromaction, action film, B-D- Wong, Bryce Dallas Howard, Chris Pratt, Colin Trevorrow, Derek Connolly, destruction, dinosaurs, disaster, genetics, Irrfan Khan, Jake Johnson, Judy Greer, Jurassic Park, Jurassic World, Katie McGrath, Lauren Lapkus, Nick Robinson, Omar Sy, re-creation, self-reflexivity, sequel, sexism, theme park, Ty Simpkins, Vincent D'OnofrioComment
James Bond 007: From Russia with Love (1963)
James Bond 007: From Russia with Love (1963)

Sharp and bare, structurally and psychologically.

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Flash Back, Reviews, James Bond 007Anton Bergstromaction, Bernard Lee, character psychology, class tension, Cold War, Daniela Bianchi, dry humour, England, Eunice Gayson, From Russia with Love, Ian Fleming, Istanbul, James Bond, James Bond 007, James Bond 007 Retrospective, Lois Maxwell, Lotte Lenya, Pedro Armendariz, Robert Shaw, Russia, Sean Connery, self-reflexivity, sequel, spy movie, spy thriller, suspense, Terence Young, train sequence, Venice Comments