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Say what you like about Tom Cruise – he knows how to make a damn good action movie. The man is 57 years old and last year starred in Mission: Impossible – Fallout, the sixth in the iconic secret agent series – and they just keep getting bigger and better. It seems Cruise has found a strong creative partner in director Christopher McQuarrie; either that or McQuarrie is carrying out some sort of elaborate plan to send him to his death, which, judging by the stunts Cruise pulls off in this film, would not surprise me. ...

So, to recap. Spoilers ahead for the previous films in the series. **RISE Of The Planet Of The Apes was the one with James Franco, that blonde one from Harry Potter and Caesar as a little baby ape. Franco’s character Will is conducting experiments in order to find a cure for dementia, Caesar gains superior intelligence as a result and is raised by Will, only to end up locked up, breaking free and starting an ape revolution. ...

The highly anticipated sequel to the beloved **Jurassic Park franchise finally arrived in 2015, 22 years after we first visited Isla Nublar. Returning with an updated concept, a stellar cast and enough Easter eggs to make even a Jurassic Park novice nostalgic, **Jurassic World saw monstrous box office returns on its release that were far from surprising. After a fellow billionaire vows to grant John Hammond’s dying wish of the park to open one day, Jurassic World is born and we finally get to see the park that Hammond envisaged in all its glory. Guests flood in by the thousands to get a look at all the attractions; including a T-Rex, a baby dinosaur petting zoo, a Sea World-esque mosasaur show and tours of the lab where the dinosaurs are created. ...

A Film Writer’s Education is a feature where our editor Sophie gets her act together, and watches all of those classic films that she should have seen by now, but hasn’t. She has neglected the icons for too long, and is going back through some of the biggest and best moments in cinema to get her knowledge up to scratch. To start with, we’re going through Empire’s most recent list of the 100 greatest movies, released in 2017, around 60 of which Sophie hasn’t seen. She’s doing the work so you don’t have to. ...