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New Release Review - "Jurassic World Rebirth"

by Eric Hillis, TheMovieWaffler.com
published 2025-07-12

When a new coach takes over a struggling sports team they often start pinning the blame on their predecessor, complaining about the lack of fitness in their players. It's a way of buying themselves time. "Look at the mess I inherited!" With Jurassic World Rebirth, director Gareth Edwards and returning screenwriter David Koepp, who penned the first two Spielberg directed entries, pull a similar stunt. Opening text tells us that the world of this series has begun to take dinosaurs for granted, and in an early sequence we see New York commuters moan as the sort of dinosaur that inspired wonder in Sam Neill and Laura Dern all those years ago is now the cause of a traffic jam. Edwards and Koepp are clearly acknowledging that they've inherited a mess, but the box office figures suggest the public hasn't lost interest in this series. The most recent entry, Dominion, made a billion dollars despite being the series' low point. At time of writing, Jurassic World Rebirth has made a staggering $250 million in just its opening day.




 

First Look Review - "No Sleep Till"

by Eric Hillis, TheMovieWaffler.com
published 2025-07-08

The filmmaking collective known as Omnes Films has been responsible for three of the best American indie features of recent years. Tyler Taormina's Ham on Rye and Christmas Eve in Miller's Point and Carson Lund's Eephus all share an elegiac quality. All three are centred around characters confronting the notion that a way of life they've taken for granted is coming to an end. The people in Omnes Films productions don't so much rage against the dying of the light as quietly accept it. In Ham on Rye, a teenage girl contends with being left in her small town when all her friends depart through a strange portal. Christmas Eve in Miller's Point sees an extended Italian-American clan gather for one last Christmas before their family home is sold. Eephus is centred on the last ever game to be played at a beer league baseball field.



Fall 2025 New Jersey Film Festival Preview

(NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ) -- The New Jersey Film Festival returns to Rutgers University September 5 through October 10, 2025. As it has done the last few years, the festival will include select in-person screenings with all films available via video on-demand (VOD) as well. There are also a few screenings available only via VOD. Twenty films will have their New Jersey or Area Premiere (Middlesex County).



New Release Review - "F1"

by Eric Hillis, TheMovieWaffler.com
published 2025-07-03

Following the success of Top Gun: Maverick, the world's dads began to wonder if maybe they might next be gifted a similarly belated sequel to that other high octane Tom Cruise vehicle, Days of Thunder. Ironically, Maverick's director Joseph Kosinski has probably scuppered any chance of that happening, as his racing drama F1 is exactly the movie you imagine a Days of Thunder follow-up would be.



New Release Review - "M3GAN 2.0"

by Eric Hillis, TheMovieWaffler.com
published 2025-06-30

Director Gerard Johnstone scored a hit with his 2023 AI thriller M3GAN, so now we have the obligatory upgrade. And like most software updates, this one doesn't improve on what we already had, rather it adds unwanted features and comes with its share of glitches. It strays so far away from the simplicity of the first movie that if the series is to continue it's going to require a full system restore to an earlier saved point.