Jeff Goldblum

They Shot the Piano Player

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Frank Sinatra sings bossa nova with Ténorio and band

A heartfelt attempt to save a bossa nova pianist’s name from oblivion as his peers die, They Shot the Piano also sees Javier Mariscal and Fernando Trueba collaborating again for the first time since 2009’s Chico & Rita. That was a bright, busy, noir-tinged animation aiming to lever Cuban and Latin musicians back into the history of jazz using a love story as a fulcrum. Here the project is focused on an individual, Ténorio Júnior. Though the style of animation remains the same, Mariscal and Trueba don’t need to rescue bossa nova – it’s a wave that’s continued breaking ever since 1959 rolled into 1960. The title is an allusion to Truffaut’s Shoot the … Read more

Jurassic World Dominion

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Group shot of the cast of Jurassic World Dominion

Going into production, the makers of Jurassic World Dominion knew they had to deal with a raft of problems that most franchises don’t have to deal with. They couldn’t change the villain – one of the key ways that long-running franchises refresh their offering. In Jurassic Park movies the bad guy remains the dinosaur no matter how many crazed megalomaniac humans are injected into the mix. They also couldn’t really change the location. This isn’t a story of a world taken over by dinosaurs but of a theme park (essentially) going wrong. James Bond gets sent to Bermuda, or Brazil, or Baluchistan, or into space orbit or beneath the waves to ring the … Read more