It can be a sad sight to see a once beloved franchise become re-spun and hung-dry by studio execs trying to cash-in on endless sequels. And although sequels aren’t per se a bad thing - many can build successfully on popular pre-existing material, see Top Gun: Maverick - in this current climate, it feels like studios are becoming increasingly risk-averse to green-lighting original projects. Hence, we now have the seventh installment of the “Jurassic” franchise. I can’t exactly

Tom Cruise really is a singular kind of guy. Being the lead in one of the most successful action film franchises of all time for close to thirty years isn’t a common achievement. In this latest, and perhaps final instalment, Cruise is doing things that probably have never been done before on screen. He is hanging from biplanes and scouring through nuclear submarines to prevent weapons of mass destruction from being launched and of course, leaving it ‘till the very last minute