Film Previews
6/1/2022
“Jurassic World Dominion”
PG-13 | 146 minutes
Director: Colin Trevorrow
Stars: Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Laura Dern
Finally, Universal Pictures is set to release the epic conclusion to the Jurassic era as two generations unite for the first time. Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard are joined by Oscar-winner Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum and Sam Neill in “Jurassic World Dominion.” “Dominion” picks up after the events of “Fallen Kingdom” and takes place four years after Isla Nublar has been destroyed. Dinosaurs now live — and hunt — alongside humans all over the world. This fragile balance will reshape the future and determine, once and for all, whether human beings are to remain the apex predators on a planet they now share with history’s most fearsome creatures. “We’re racing toward the extinction of our species,” Dr. Ian Malcolm explains, setting the scene in the trailer. “We not only lack dominion over nature, [but] we’re subordinate to it,” he adds.
“Lightyear”
PG | 100 minutes
A sci-fi action-adventure and the definitive origin story of Buzz Lightyear (Chris Evans), the hero who inspired the action figure owned by Andy and Bonnie throughout the original film franchise, “Lightyear” follows the legendary Space Ranger on an intergalactic adventure alongside a group of ambitious recruits (Keke Palmer, Dale Soules and Taika Waititi) and his robot companion Sox (Peter Sohn). While audiences might have assumed the Buzz Lightyear toy was a fictional spaceman, it turns out he’s based on a real-life test pilot (at least within the universe of the films) who showed the world what humanity was capable of by launching into space.
“Spiderhead”
R | 106 minutes
“Spiderhead” is based on The New Yorker short story, “Escape from Spiderhead,” by George Saunders. Steve Abnesti (Chris Hemsworth) is a brilliant (if morally challenged) man who runs a high-tech penitentiary called Spiderhead where prisoners undergo a unique regimen in order to have their sentences reduced. All they have to do is wear a device that administers mind-altering drugs that helps them — in theory — become better people. In this facility, you won’t find cells or prison yards or handcuffs, but what you will find are prisoners being pumped full of experimental drugs whose side effects can be, well, catastrophic. When two of those prisoners, Jeff (Miles Teller) and Lizzy (Jurnee Smollett), find solace in one another, Abnesti will only ratchet up his experiments until something, or many someones, have to give. ♦
