The Big Picture · Discussion · Review · Interview
July 2, 2025/ 92 min/ Sean Fennessey · Amanda Dobbins · Chris Ryan
Sean Fennessey, Amanda Dobbins, and Chris Ryan break down the teaser for Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey,' then split three ways on 'Jurassic World Rebirth' after an 8 a.m. screening. Sean closes with an interview with Eva Victor about her debut, 'Sorry, Baby.'
5 films across 3 segments.
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Nolan's 'The Odyssey' teaser and the summer trailersseen before the Jurassic screening
The teaser leaked the day before; Amanda skipped it to see it in Dolby. Shot on IMAX 65mm: horses on the beach, the Trojan horse. John Leguizamo narrates ('Zeus's law smashed to pieces'), Tom Holland is a teary Telemachus, Jon Bernthal appears, and Matt Damon's Odysseus is seen only from behind and floating on a raft, never speaking. The cast plays it in nondescript American accents. Out one year to the month.
Edgar Wright's adaptation, with Glen Powell going bigger and angrier than usual opposite Josh Brolin, and Colman Domingo as the host. Same stairway/electrified-water-gun set-piece energy the hosts saw at CinemaCon; out November 7.
Sean is ready to be moved and skipped the trailer entirely; he just replied to the email asking when he could see it. Also opens November 7.
'Jurassic World Rebirth'Gareth Edwards · seventh in the franchise
The seventh Jurassic film and the fourth of the non-Spielberg era, directed by Gareth Edwards from a David Koepp script, with Scarlett Johansson as mercenary Zora Bennett, Mahershala Ali as boat captain Duncan Kincaid, Jonathan Bailey as a paleontologist, and Rupert Friend for the InGen spin-off chasing dinosaur DNA (land, sea, and air) to cure heart disease. Shot on film by John Mathieson; score by Alexandre Desplat. Chris had a good time and rated the craft; Amanda was moved by the wonder and the theme cues; Sean was mad: two disconnected movies (the mercenary mission and a family sailing through a 'dinosaur militarized zone') stapled together, a shot-for-shot rerun of the first film that insults the audience and never kills anyone. Praised set pieces: the mosasaurus/great-white water attack, the T. rex on its back, the pterodactyl grabbing raptors mid-piss. Chris ranks it fourth in the series; reviews landed at 53% on Rotten Tomatoes.
In conversation with Eva Victorher debut feature
Victor wrote, directed, and stars in her debut, made with Barry Jenkins's Pastel after a decade of rejection and years of one-minute comedy videos online. The nonlinear structure moves back four years and works toward the present, skipping the one it withholds; the film is built around a bathtub scene between Agnes and Lydie. She fought sepia-toned flashback conventions and 'Save the Cat' structure; the film was bought at Sundance for far more than it cost.
Also mentioned raised along the way
Also in the trailer reel WickedA Star Is BornOppenheimer12 Years a SlaveInceptionStillwater
The Jurassic franchise Jurassic ParkThe Lost World: Jurassic ParkJurassic Park IIIJurassic WorldJurassic World: Fallen KingdomJurassic World Dominion
Gareth Edwards elsewhere MonstersGodzillaRogue One: A Star Wars StoryThe Creator
'Rebirth' touchstones and asides JawsAliensThe Gospel According to St. MatthewDropF1Mission: Impossible - The Final ReckoningBallerinaFast XGandhiGladiatorHeatFerrariHit Man
In the Eva Victor interview The GodfatherThe ShiningParis, TexasIn the Mood for LoveSingin' in the RainSwing TimeTop HatA Hard Day's NightThe Double Life of VéroniqueJunoFargoLet the Sunshine InMargaretThree Colors: Blue28 Years LaterTwistersSinnersCaught by the Tides
Not films filtered out: TV, games, ads
TV LionessThe Summer I Turned PrettyBewitchedBillions
Unmade or rumored Heat 2Top Gun 3
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