‘The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.’ But I do want. ‘He leadeth me beside still waters. He restoreth my soul.’ But they killed my dog.

At its core, Pale Rider is the story of how the murder of a poor defenseless dog by a ground of outlaws provoked God to unleash the fourth horseman of the apocalypse on the frontier, in the anthropomorphised form of Clint Eastwood.

And there’s nothing wrong with that.

“Stockburn and his men…

We’re both exploiting these creatures. I just have the integrity to admit it.

Although it may be damning with faint praise, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom is easily the best Jurassic Park movie since The Lost World, the film with which it shares the most of its DNA.

Fallen Kingdom wears that particular influence on its sleeve; the basic premise of a bunch of contractors sent to an island to recover dinosaurs, the wealthy and sick old man funding the expedition,…