While there’s never really a sense of true danger for our heroes, we get just enough of the range of CGI dinosaurs and their weird traits to keep the film entertaining.
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Macie Stewart of Ohmme on a band to smile and dance to
Current musical obsessions of Dave Collis from Slow Mass, Macie Stewart from Ohmme, and Leor Galil from the Reader
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Move over, T. rex: Field Museum shows off the diversity of dinos from outside America
The new Máximo installation and “Antarctic Dinosaurs” exhibit feature dinosaurs from around the world that aren’t yet household names, at least in the States.
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Annihilation preserves the source novel’s biological nightmare but dispenses with its mounting paranoia
Director Alex Garland follows his acclaimed Ex Machina with this screen adaptation of Jeff VanderMeer’s sci-fi adventure.
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Toastamania: Halloween Havok collides rowdy bands and gonzo wrestling for the wildest show of the season
Chicago thrash band Texas Toast Chainsaw Massacre headline the latest of their Toastamania debacles this Saturday in Pilsen.
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Jurassic Jaws Double Feature, Windy City Ribfest, and more things to do in Chicago this weekend
Chicago Fire vs. San Jose Earthquakes, Fourth of July, and more happenings from July 1-4.
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Pac-Man meets a Donkey Kong potato at Level 257 in Schaumburg
The classic mall arcade this is not. It’s also not a very good restaurant.
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Doug Martsch of Built to Spill should direct a superhero movie
On a related note, Hollywood blockbusters could use more piles of shit.
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Welcome to Godzilla land
The new Godzilla remake is a lesson in the lost art of mise-en-scene.
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What do you get when you take the dinosaurs out of Jurassic Park?
Comparing the Steven Spielberg blockbuster, currently playing in a new 3-D version, to Uncle Vanya and the classic Polish drama The Structure of Crystals