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Jurassic World Dominion: Every dinosaur, listed

Jurassic World Dominion is out now on the big screen, bringing the dino franchise to an end (for now). Set four years after Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, the new movie sees humans and prehistoric creatures uneasily existing side by side. Matters are complicated further by the threat of an ecological …

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Is it just me, or have Agatha Christie adaptations had their day?

Watching Sir Kenneth Branagh’s star-studded, CGI-assisted and deliriously old-fashioned movie version of Death on the Nile, this pundit was struck by a number of questions. Why did writer Michael Green feel the need to give Hercule Poirot’s moustache a tragic backstory? Why were so many comics, Russell Brand and French …

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Is it just me, or do we need a one-person-comedy revival?

The 1990s and early 2000s were a terrific time for one specific type of film: comedies in which a single actor plays a dozen different roles. In 1996 came The Nutty Professor, in which Eddie Murphy played not just the professor, but also his mother, brother, father and grandmother, plus …

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Every on-screen Joker ranked from worst to best

The laugh-filled yin to Batman’s growly yang; the Darth Vader to The Dark Knight’s Luke Skywalker; The Caped Crusader’s Kryptonite. We are, of course, talking about the Joker. With The Batman brooding its way into cinemas and introducing a new Joker into the mix, it seemed right to rank the best …

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