When Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park debuted in 1993, it not only reinvented the summer blockbuster, but paired science and big-budget movie-making with a subject that fascinated audiences both young and old: dinosaurs. Thanks to its compelling source material from novelist Michael Crichton, the science was quasi-believable, adding to the allure and possibility that one day…
Like Bill Murray and (dare I say) Nicolas Cage, Jeff Goldblum is a national treasure. He’s an actor and man whose own celebrity has been re-fueled thanks to internet memes and strange public appearances. I mean, we’ve all seen him with his shirt off. We’ve all seen Jurassic Park. We’ve all heard that laugh. There’s just…
When Jurassic Park hit theaters in June of 1993, I had just finished the third grade. Watching Sam Neill, Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum run from the perils of genetically created dinosaurs was quite possibly the biggest thing I’d ever seen on screen – both in terms of filmmaking and T-Rex stomps. The ripples…
Please excuse me as I write this blog in the voice of an excited 30-year-old 3rd grader. JK, Jay. JK. This trailer for Jurassic World was supposed to come out during some boring sportsing game on Thanksgiving Day, but the Internet Gods have saved me the trouble of DVRing said game and fast-forwarding to the…
My friend’s boyfriend sent her this thing that he got from a link somewhere, which turned out to be from Reddit, where some guy got it from God knows where. PRAISE THE ALMIGHTY INTERNET because this one’s a real keeper. And don’t you be frontin’, kid. Quit trying to act like Jurassic Park isn’t the…
The fact that I just saw this video, Friday, March 7, 2014, makes me sad. I feel like my entire life is a lie. (And what did we ever do before YouTube anyways?) My pal Lindsey CK sent me this today and it’s making my Friday happy. So if you haven’t seen this video of…