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Daily Record
11-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Record
MOVIE REVIEW: We find out if sequel 'Jurassic World: Rebirth' is a roar-some reboot
Soaring set pieces and on safer ground with island return but still falls into similar traps to its immediate predecessors. Following the poor critical reception to the previous two Jurassic World movies it's time for a soft reboot. Writer David Koepp makes only brief mentions to events in those flicks - and bar a lumbering Brontosaurus trapped in the middle of New York we don't get to see any dinosaurs running wild in city settings. Instead, we head back to an island, this time Ile Saint-Hubert in the Atlantic Ocean, as a team embark on a mission to extract DNA from three dinosaurs for a ground breaking medical breakthrough. That may sound like 'seen it all before' territory, and some of it is, but new dinosaurs and environments as well as humans with varying motivations ensure things are kept reasonably fresh. Having helmed Monsters and the Godzilla reboot, Gareth Edwards was a wise choice to take the directing reins and he shoots a few of the franchise's best, most exciting set-pieces. Leading the way is an ocean-set face-off between the human cast and a Mosasaurus and several Spinosauruses. Scarlett Johansson ( Zora) brings star power as a mercenary with a heart amid a fateful previous mission and Jonathan Bailey's passionate, wise-cracking Dr Henry Loomis is a spiritual successor to Sam Neill's Dr Grant. I'm not sure we needed the Delgado family - and David Iacono's Xavier can be a grating presence - but they serve up more people in peril to take us to different parts of the island. Rupert Friend ( Martin) may as well have 'baddie' stamped on his forehead but he is a lot more charismatic and opinionated than most of the series' human antagonists. Like the other Jurassic World flicks we get DNA-spliced, mutated dinosaurs, headed up by the colossal Distortus rex which doesn't get much screen time and can't evoke the fear of other main animal players in the franchise. The T rex makes a welcome comeback - and for once doesn't save the day - and there's no sequel-baiting; Rebirth is a standalone adventure. Which is probably for the best as while this is one of the series' better sequels, recapturing the magic and wonder of the original continues to prove an almighty, probably impossible, challenge. Pop me an email at and I will pass on your comments – and any movie or TV show recommendations you have – to your fellow readers. *Don't miss the latest headlines from around Lanarkshire. Sign up to our newsletters here. And did you know Lanarkshire Live had its own app? Download yours for free here.
Time of India
09-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Dinosaur Grow a Garden update: Unlock T-Rex, Brontosaurus, and rare pets with eggs and Burning Buds
Source: YouTube In a major evolution of the beloved simulation game Grow a Garden, developers have launched the Prehistoric Update, injecting a thrilling new dimension into gameplay. Featuring dinosaur eggs, ancient crops, and the rare Burning Bud seed, this expansion goes beyond aesthetics, introducing complex strategy layers that challenge players to rethink their gardening approach. From pet mutations to high-stakes seed economics, the update, officially titled "Dinosaur Egg Grow a Garden", offers exciting possibilities for both newcomers and seasoned players. Dinosaur Grow a Garden update: How to get and hatch prehistoric eggs Grow a Garden game adds prehistoric-themed features like dinosaur eggs, ancient crops, new pets, and the rare Burning Bud seed. At the heart of the update is a new quest-driven system that introduces dinosaur eggs as collectible items. These eggs, once hatched, unlock rare prehistoric pets such as: by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Dubai's Next Icon: Experience Binghatti Aquarise Luxury Binghatti Developers FZE Learn More Undo Triceratops Brontosaurus Pterodactyl Stegosaurus Raptor T-Rex (legendary and ultra-rare) Players can obtain these eggs through two primary methods: Pet exchange via Graham By pets trading NPC already hatched pets at the Dinosaur Egg DNA Station, players can receive dinosaur eggs. The station is located centrally within the garden hub. Prehistoric quests from blaire Located opposite Graham's station, Blaire offers rotating quests that grant eggs as rewards. These tasks refresh regularly, giving players repeated chances to win an egg if they miss out initially. Once acquired, the dinosaur egg takes four hours to hatch, adding an element of anticipation and patience to the game. Dinosaur egg hatch odds and pet probabilities Each dinosaur egg has a unique chance of hatching into a specific pet, with varying degrees of rarity and in-game impact:\ Dinosaur Pet Odds of Hatching Raptor 35% Triceratops 32.50% Stegosaurus 28% Brontosaurus TBC (To be confirmed) Pterodactyl 3% T-Rex 1% (Ultra-Rare) The T-Rex is particularly sought after due to its ability to detect and propagate the highest-value crop mutations across the garden—making it a game-changer for yield-focused players. Dinosaur pet: Unique abilities of prehistoric pets Each dinosaur pet introduces specialized traits that enhance various aspects of gardening and harvesting: Triceratops: Boosts the size and weight of all hatched pets. Raptor: Grants a chance to apply the Amber mutation to nearby crops. Stegosaurus: Can duplicate harvested crops, especially from the ancient variety. Brontosaurus: Speeds up the growth of up to three crops, with occasional bonus boosts. Pterodactyl: Introduces Windstruck or Twisted mutations and improves the player's jumping ability. T-Rex: Identifies top-tier crop mutations and spreads them garden-wide, raising the total harvest value. Players focused on maximizing returns are especially advised to seek out the Stegosaurus and T-Rex due to their exceptional farming utility. How to get the Burning Bud in Dinosaur Grow a Garden The Burning Bud seed is the update's most coveted item. Dubbed a prismatic-rarity seed, it now sits atop the Seed Shop catalogue as the most valuable crop, surpassing the former leader, the Sugar Apple. Steps to get the Burning Bud Purchase price: 50,000,000 Sheckles or 915 Robux Availability: Listed at the bottom of the Seed Shop, which refreshes every five minutes Drop rate: Extremely low, requiring players to remain active in-game or track updates via the official Grow a Garden stock Discord channel Some players exploit in-game pet abilities for a shortcut. For example, the Raccoon pet has a chance to steal plants from others' gardens, and on rare occasions, it can snatch a Burning Bud—making it both mischievous and potentially profitable. How to earn big from a single Burning Bud fruit Despite yielding only one fruit per growth cycle, the Burning Bud commands a sell price of approximately 135,000 Sheckles, making it one of the most lucrative plants in the game. By equipping advanced garden gears, players can: Accelerate crop growth rates Increase fruit size Trigger beneficial mutations To fund the initial Burning Bud investment, experts recommend mutating multiple fruits and selling them in bulk. This high-return strategy helps players amass wealth faster and reinvest in premium seeds. How to make the most of grow a garden's prehistoric expansion The Dinosaur Egg Grow a Garden expansion introduces a compelling blend of new content, from collectible pets and mutated crops to evolving economic systems. Here's how to get the most out of it: Monitor the Seed Shop consistently for Burning Bud availability Complete Blaire's quests daily to earn dinosaur eggs Use the DNA Station to trade surplus pets for a shot at rare eggs Prioritise T-Rex and Stegosaurus for the most impactful garden gains Join the Discord server for real-time alerts and market updates Also Read | Today's Wordle Hints and Answers AI Masterclass for Students. Upskill Young Ones Today!– Join Now
The Advertiser
04-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Advertiser
The tired old Jurassic beasts creaks on with a fresh new feel
Jurassic World: Rebirth (M, 133 minutes) 3 stars Scarlett Johansson almost single-handedly carries this latest film in the 32-year-old dinosaur action film series. I mean, there are plenty of dinosaur critters, plenty of action, enough dubious characters getting their comeuppance, and some sensible restraint in the writing and the direction - and ScarJo had nothing to do with any of those things. But there's a world-weariness and vulnerability that Johansson brings to her mercenary leading an expedition to the last remaining havens of the world's dinosaur population. Writer David Koepp, director Gareth Edwards and the film's producers don't try and overburden the path her character is on. As aforementioned, it is 32 years since audiences were gobsmacked, just like Sam Neil and Laura Dern's characters were, by a pack of brontosaurus in Steven Spielberg's original Jurassic Park. In this fictional world, it has also been that amount of time, a timeline where dinosaurs escaped their enclosures and joined the world's ecosystems. The jaded New Yorkers of this film's opening scenes are fed up to the back teeth with the traffic jams and interruptions to their routines that a dying Brontosaurus is causing in the city. Our world is a colder place full of new diseases, and since the trilogy of Jurassic films that starred Bryce Dallas Howard and Chris Pratt, most of the escaped plague of dinos have been dying out, their second great extinction. Only a thin band of latitude along the equator is climatically suitable. It is here that a shadowy services-for-hire operative Zora Bennett (ScarJo) is offered an obscene amount of money to bring the even shadowy-er pharmaceutical company exec Martin Krebs (Rupert Friend). Krebs is working for some unseen money-men looking for blood samples collected from the largest of the remaining dinosaur population to produce lucrative medical products. The team Krebs assembles includes research scientist Dr Henry Loomis (Jonathan Bailey) and transport specialist Duncan Kincaid (Mahershala Ali). Screenwriter David Koepp was one of Spielberg's original 1993 Jurassic writers and he goes back to the heart of what made that film so great. The greatest amongst those things I think is its character interplay. There's no need to force some unnecessary sexual tension between anybody and there's enough emotional rawness in each of the characters' backstories - and we're far enough from the 90s - that greed itself isn't enough of a character motivator. And so the Johansson and Bailey characters can discuss the ethics of what they're doing without the filmmakers forcing a reason for them to drop their shirts, or flirt, or kiss. For anyone who misses that in their family-audience dinosaur film, Game of Thrones star Ed Skrein is dressed in such skin tight Lycra, which I'm not sure most real-life game-hunting mercenaries would don, that his nipples deserve their own film credit. Writer Koepp has, in his CV, also written for the LEGO PlayStation game versions of the Jurassic Park and Indiana Jones films, and here he and director Gareth Edwards give us plenty of great fan service jokes, like the old "objects in the mirror may appear closer than they are", so that I very much look forward to the LEGO PlayStation game of this film. The performers are all good, and they're all given enough meat and motivation to be more fleshed-out than their future LEGO selves. Among the things to celebrate in director Edwards's approach is shying away from CGI to work with practical effects, puppetry and real location filming where possible, and so the film looks great and doesn't feel HDTV surreal. He took the Star Wars franchise back to its gritty fan-base-loyal origins when he directed Rogue One, opening up a new line of storytelling. I feel he's just done the same for this tired old beast of a money-making film machine. Jurassic World: Rebirth (M, 133 minutes) 3 stars Scarlett Johansson almost single-handedly carries this latest film in the 32-year-old dinosaur action film series. I mean, there are plenty of dinosaur critters, plenty of action, enough dubious characters getting their comeuppance, and some sensible restraint in the writing and the direction - and ScarJo had nothing to do with any of those things. But there's a world-weariness and vulnerability that Johansson brings to her mercenary leading an expedition to the last remaining havens of the world's dinosaur population. Writer David Koepp, director Gareth Edwards and the film's producers don't try and overburden the path her character is on. As aforementioned, it is 32 years since audiences were gobsmacked, just like Sam Neil and Laura Dern's characters were, by a pack of brontosaurus in Steven Spielberg's original Jurassic Park. In this fictional world, it has also been that amount of time, a timeline where dinosaurs escaped their enclosures and joined the world's ecosystems. The jaded New Yorkers of this film's opening scenes are fed up to the back teeth with the traffic jams and interruptions to their routines that a dying Brontosaurus is causing in the city. Our world is a colder place full of new diseases, and since the trilogy of Jurassic films that starred Bryce Dallas Howard and Chris Pratt, most of the escaped plague of dinos have been dying out, their second great extinction. Only a thin band of latitude along the equator is climatically suitable. It is here that a shadowy services-for-hire operative Zora Bennett (ScarJo) is offered an obscene amount of money to bring the even shadowy-er pharmaceutical company exec Martin Krebs (Rupert Friend). Krebs is working for some unseen money-men looking for blood samples collected from the largest of the remaining dinosaur population to produce lucrative medical products. The team Krebs assembles includes research scientist Dr Henry Loomis (Jonathan Bailey) and transport specialist Duncan Kincaid (Mahershala Ali). Screenwriter David Koepp was one of Spielberg's original 1993 Jurassic writers and he goes back to the heart of what made that film so great. The greatest amongst those things I think is its character interplay. There's no need to force some unnecessary sexual tension between anybody and there's enough emotional rawness in each of the characters' backstories - and we're far enough from the 90s - that greed itself isn't enough of a character motivator. And so the Johansson and Bailey characters can discuss the ethics of what they're doing without the filmmakers forcing a reason for them to drop their shirts, or flirt, or kiss. For anyone who misses that in their family-audience dinosaur film, Game of Thrones star Ed Skrein is dressed in such skin tight Lycra, which I'm not sure most real-life game-hunting mercenaries would don, that his nipples deserve their own film credit. Writer Koepp has, in his CV, also written for the LEGO PlayStation game versions of the Jurassic Park and Indiana Jones films, and here he and director Gareth Edwards give us plenty of great fan service jokes, like the old "objects in the mirror may appear closer than they are", so that I very much look forward to the LEGO PlayStation game of this film. The performers are all good, and they're all given enough meat and motivation to be more fleshed-out than their future LEGO selves. Among the things to celebrate in director Edwards's approach is shying away from CGI to work with practical effects, puppetry and real location filming where possible, and so the film looks great and doesn't feel HDTV surreal. He took the Star Wars franchise back to its gritty fan-base-loyal origins when he directed Rogue One, opening up a new line of storytelling. I feel he's just done the same for this tired old beast of a money-making film machine. Jurassic World: Rebirth (M, 133 minutes) 3 stars Scarlett Johansson almost single-handedly carries this latest film in the 32-year-old dinosaur action film series. I mean, there are plenty of dinosaur critters, plenty of action, enough dubious characters getting their comeuppance, and some sensible restraint in the writing and the direction - and ScarJo had nothing to do with any of those things. But there's a world-weariness and vulnerability that Johansson brings to her mercenary leading an expedition to the last remaining havens of the world's dinosaur population. Writer David Koepp, director Gareth Edwards and the film's producers don't try and overburden the path her character is on. As aforementioned, it is 32 years since audiences were gobsmacked, just like Sam Neil and Laura Dern's characters were, by a pack of brontosaurus in Steven Spielberg's original Jurassic Park. In this fictional world, it has also been that amount of time, a timeline where dinosaurs escaped their enclosures and joined the world's ecosystems. The jaded New Yorkers of this film's opening scenes are fed up to the back teeth with the traffic jams and interruptions to their routines that a dying Brontosaurus is causing in the city. Our world is a colder place full of new diseases, and since the trilogy of Jurassic films that starred Bryce Dallas Howard and Chris Pratt, most of the escaped plague of dinos have been dying out, their second great extinction. Only a thin band of latitude along the equator is climatically suitable. It is here that a shadowy services-for-hire operative Zora Bennett (ScarJo) is offered an obscene amount of money to bring the even shadowy-er pharmaceutical company exec Martin Krebs (Rupert Friend). Krebs is working for some unseen money-men looking for blood samples collected from the largest of the remaining dinosaur population to produce lucrative medical products. The team Krebs assembles includes research scientist Dr Henry Loomis (Jonathan Bailey) and transport specialist Duncan Kincaid (Mahershala Ali). Screenwriter David Koepp was one of Spielberg's original 1993 Jurassic writers and he goes back to the heart of what made that film so great. The greatest amongst those things I think is its character interplay. There's no need to force some unnecessary sexual tension between anybody and there's enough emotional rawness in each of the characters' backstories - and we're far enough from the 90s - that greed itself isn't enough of a character motivator. And so the Johansson and Bailey characters can discuss the ethics of what they're doing without the filmmakers forcing a reason for them to drop their shirts, or flirt, or kiss. For anyone who misses that in their family-audience dinosaur film, Game of Thrones star Ed Skrein is dressed in such skin tight Lycra, which I'm not sure most real-life game-hunting mercenaries would don, that his nipples deserve their own film credit. Writer Koepp has, in his CV, also written for the LEGO PlayStation game versions of the Jurassic Park and Indiana Jones films, and here he and director Gareth Edwards give us plenty of great fan service jokes, like the old "objects in the mirror may appear closer than they are", so that I very much look forward to the LEGO PlayStation game of this film. The performers are all good, and they're all given enough meat and motivation to be more fleshed-out than their future LEGO selves. Among the things to celebrate in director Edwards's approach is shying away from CGI to work with practical effects, puppetry and real location filming where possible, and so the film looks great and doesn't feel HDTV surreal. He took the Star Wars franchise back to its gritty fan-base-loyal origins when he directed Rogue One, opening up a new line of storytelling. I feel he's just done the same for this tired old beast of a money-making film machine. Jurassic World: Rebirth (M, 133 minutes) 3 stars Scarlett Johansson almost single-handedly carries this latest film in the 32-year-old dinosaur action film series. I mean, there are plenty of dinosaur critters, plenty of action, enough dubious characters getting their comeuppance, and some sensible restraint in the writing and the direction - and ScarJo had nothing to do with any of those things. But there's a world-weariness and vulnerability that Johansson brings to her mercenary leading an expedition to the last remaining havens of the world's dinosaur population. Writer David Koepp, director Gareth Edwards and the film's producers don't try and overburden the path her character is on. As aforementioned, it is 32 years since audiences were gobsmacked, just like Sam Neil and Laura Dern's characters were, by a pack of brontosaurus in Steven Spielberg's original Jurassic Park. In this fictional world, it has also been that amount of time, a timeline where dinosaurs escaped their enclosures and joined the world's ecosystems. The jaded New Yorkers of this film's opening scenes are fed up to the back teeth with the traffic jams and interruptions to their routines that a dying Brontosaurus is causing in the city. Our world is a colder place full of new diseases, and since the trilogy of Jurassic films that starred Bryce Dallas Howard and Chris Pratt, most of the escaped plague of dinos have been dying out, their second great extinction. Only a thin band of latitude along the equator is climatically suitable. It is here that a shadowy services-for-hire operative Zora Bennett (ScarJo) is offered an obscene amount of money to bring the even shadowy-er pharmaceutical company exec Martin Krebs (Rupert Friend). Krebs is working for some unseen money-men looking for blood samples collected from the largest of the remaining dinosaur population to produce lucrative medical products. The team Krebs assembles includes research scientist Dr Henry Loomis (Jonathan Bailey) and transport specialist Duncan Kincaid (Mahershala Ali). Screenwriter David Koepp was one of Spielberg's original 1993 Jurassic writers and he goes back to the heart of what made that film so great. The greatest amongst those things I think is its character interplay. There's no need to force some unnecessary sexual tension between anybody and there's enough emotional rawness in each of the characters' backstories - and we're far enough from the 90s - that greed itself isn't enough of a character motivator. And so the Johansson and Bailey characters can discuss the ethics of what they're doing without the filmmakers forcing a reason for them to drop their shirts, or flirt, or kiss. For anyone who misses that in their family-audience dinosaur film, Game of Thrones star Ed Skrein is dressed in such skin tight Lycra, which I'm not sure most real-life game-hunting mercenaries would don, that his nipples deserve their own film credit. Writer Koepp has, in his CV, also written for the LEGO PlayStation game versions of the Jurassic Park and Indiana Jones films, and here he and director Gareth Edwards give us plenty of great fan service jokes, like the old "objects in the mirror may appear closer than they are", so that I very much look forward to the LEGO PlayStation game of this film. The performers are all good, and they're all given enough meat and motivation to be more fleshed-out than their future LEGO selves. Among the things to celebrate in director Edwards's approach is shying away from CGI to work with practical effects, puppetry and real location filming where possible, and so the film looks great and doesn't feel HDTV surreal. He took the Star Wars franchise back to its gritty fan-base-loyal origins when he directed Rogue One, opening up a new line of storytelling. I feel he's just done the same for this tired old beast of a money-making film machine.
Yahoo
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Giant Dinosaurs Take Over Peoria Riverfront Museum
PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) — The Peoria Riverfront Museum has officially gone prehistoric. Thursday, it roared to life with the opening of a brand-new exhibition: 'The World's Largest Dinosaur.' This immersive display brings visitors face-to-face with some of the largest creatures to ever walk the Earth, sauropods. Some of them grew up to 150 feet or the length of four city buses. The museum's exhibit will feature a life-sized 60-foot-long Mamenchisaurus, with one of the longest necks of any dinosaur. Those long-necked giants are childhood favorites. They were featured in cartoons and the groups features one of the most famous dinos of all time: the Brontosaurus, the 'Thunder Lizard.' The gentle giants — they were plant-eaters unlike their cousins, Tyrannosaurus Rex — are the focus of the new exhibit, which started Thursday and lasts through Sept. 1. 'The World's Largest Dinosaurs,' presented by the Gilmore Foundation, made its Midwest debut from the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Along with life-size models, the experience digs deep into the science behind sauropods, exploring everything from how they grew to such enormous sizes to the biology required to keep their massive bodies functioning. Renae Kerrigan, the museum's curator of science, hopes the exhibit does more than just impress with its scale. 'Maybe it makes somebody think about, 'I want to learn more about the other types of dinosaurs that lived on the planet,'' she said. 'Or maybe, 'Well, why aren't there dinosaurs here today? What happened to dinosaurs?' You might start to learn about how birds are actually the descendants of dinosaurs. 'I just hope it inspires people to continue learning more about something that piques their curiosity here at the museum,' Kerrigan said. In addition to the jaw-dropping scale of the displays, the exhibition also delves into the fascinating world of dinosaur eggs, growth patterns, and the biomechanics of how these giants might have pumped blood through their enormous bodies. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
01-05-2025
- Science
- Yahoo
Dinosaur exhibit to makes Midwest debut at Peoria Riverfront Museum
PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) — A dinosaur exhibit from the American Museum of Natural History in New York will be making its Midwest debut at the Peoria Riverfront Museum. 'The World's Largest Dinosaurs,' presented by the Gilmore Foundation, will open at the museum on May 24. The exhibit will feature long-necked sauropods that grew more than 150 feet and a life-sized 60-foot-long Mamenchisaurus. Also featured is the beloved Brontosaurus. 'It's exciting to host the biggest dinosaurs ever to walk the Earth right here at the Peoria Riverfront Museum,' said Renae Kerrigan, the museum's science curator. ''The World's Largest Dinosaurs' exhibition gives super-sized insight into why sauropods got so big, had such long necks, and survived for millions of years.' Visitors will be able to learn about sauropods behaviors, biology and how they thrived for about 140 million years. More information is available at the Peoria Riverfront Museum's website. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
