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Famed actor/director Richard Attenborough has passed away at age 90

Oscar winning director and actor Richard Attenborough has passed away at the age of 90. Born in 1923, Attenborough served in the served in the Royal Air Force during World War II. He began acting on stage, but made the transition to film in a small role in David Lean’s In Which We Serve in …

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Looking at Dinosaurs: ‘Jurassic Park’ and Its Powerful Hold on a Generation

Jurassic Park, like many of Spielberg’s best films, allows us to be children again, even if this is, ironically, a film most kids would be scared to death by. It’s a movie that indulges in horror-movie tropes while making them feel fresh, layering a patina of intelligence over the intense, earth-rattling action. Though the human-dinosaur face-offs are the stuff of movie legend, the early sections where Drs. Alan Grant, Ian Malcolm, and Ellie Sattler debate the ethics of a theme park full of the living, breathing extinct are strangely fascinating and entertaining, at least to 28-year old me.

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