‘Arts’ Archives
Jurassic World: Rebirth (2025)
from the series Movie Corner... 4/5 Stars Dinosaur Action/Adventure/Thriller Universal Pictures By HOWARD MCQUITTER II Howard McQuitter II Jurassic World: Rebirth is the seventh installment which is thrilling to say the least. While not being the best of the installments it is notably better than the previous two. I'll give Rebirth its props for the adventure and of course, the dinosaurs. To screenwriters Michael Crichton and David Koepp, I say kudos for the work you have put in the film. Michael Crichton wrote the original novel Jurassic Park (1990) and co-wrote the screenplay for the 1993 film. Very early in the film the exhibits of dinosaurs in the museum have fallen on hard times. The crowds that used to fill the halls are now at a trickle. Not only that, but the world governments have forbidden anyone from visiting the islands where the dinosaurs live. However, there's a handful of people who are out to defy such notions. There's Zora Bennett, an experienced [...]
Free Leonard Peltier
Featured Documentary at the 2025 Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Film Festival By OLIVER STRICHERZ Although there may be many, films aren’t the only thing getting people to come to MSPIFF. This year, the festival had many events, including everything from panels to karaoke parties. The opening night of the fest began with the documentary Free Leonard Peltier, which brilliantly told the story of the 49-year-long unjust imprisonment of Leonard Peltier, one of the most impactful Indigenous activists ever. The film, directed by Indigenous director Jesse Shortbull and reporter David France, used archival footage and interviews with other activists who were involved in the 1973 revolution in Wounded Knee. Near the end of his term, former President Biden commuted Peltier’s sentence to house arrest after the previous 49 years he spent in maximum-security prison for a crime he didn’t commit. The film had been completed by this point and had its premiere at the Sundance [...]
The Sky Is Falling
By SHELIA BLAND The sky is fallingA heart is breakingAlone in a crowdBetween ears emptinessCries in the nightTears falling from the heavens Where is this worldInside a twilight of griefWasteland of desire and wantA touchless world of longing Tunes of anxiety screech across ears All horror, all anxietyAll a prism of science fictionReligions of Religions Religions of objectivityReligions of scienceReligions of statisticsReligions of factsAll is religion—A belief in non-belief Longing to shatter the prison of individualism A prison of me, me, me— I, I, IWinner-take-allSurvival of the fittest Philosophy of annihilationism Dog eat dogFight to the finishOnly one left standing A climax of doom, gloom, and isolationThe real made fantastically unreal Screeching, screaming hollowness between earsOozing the slime of loneliness Transcendental isolation…The “I” as Godhead Shelia Bland lives in Midtown Phillips. She has been writing most of her life [...]
