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The End of Oak Street: gripping dino survival film feels Spielbergian but plays against expectations
When their suburban neighbourhood is transported from 1982 to a prehistoric jungle, Denise (Anne Hathaway) and Greg (Ewan McGregor) must set aside their differences to protect their children from deadly dinosaurs in David Robert Mitchell’s tense and trope-breaking sci-fi romp.
By Kim Newman
Of monsters and men: Peter Wollen on Jurassic Park
By Peter Wollen
10 to watch at Edinburgh International Film Festival 2026
By Josh Slater-Williams
Coyote vs. Acme: Toon courtroom drama is one of the smartest critiques of US politics in years
By Catherine Wheatley
A tour of Alfred Hitchcock’s London: how the locations look today
By Adam Scovell
10 great TV miniseries of the 1980s
By David Parkinson
Lady: oddball mockumentary about a narcissistic aristocrat is strangely moving
By Gayle Sequeira
Events
The cast and director of Lady visit BFI Southbank to explore the making of Samuel Abrahams’s satirical comedy about an aristocrat whose desire to be seen drives her to turn her life into a film.
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