Review: ‘The End of Oak Street’ feels like the kind of movie Hollywood used to make
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There was a stretch of about 20 years when Hollywood seemed to run on one simple question. “What if?” What if dinosaurs came back? What if a scientist built a time machine out of a DeLorean? What if ghosts invaded New York? What if a tornado could chase you across Oklahoma? The best blockbusters of …
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Review: ‘The End of Oak Street’ feels like the kind of movie Hollywood used to make
DETROIT — Dinosaurs invade Metro Detroit in "The End of Oak Street," the new sci-fi action film from writer-director (and Clawson native) David Robert Mitchell. Mitchell set the movie in Flowervale, a fictional suburb of Metro Detroit. And while Michigan…
Anne Hathaway has five, count ’em, five movies in release this year between May and October. The End Of Oak Street is the one that clearly isn’t going to take her back to the Academy Awards. However considering the sheer hell her suburban wife and mother goes through battling packs of dinosaurs whil…
Dinosaurs rampage through suburbia terrorizing a family in this sci-fi survival thriller from writer-director David Robert Mitchell and producer J.J. Abrams.
Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor star as suburban parents whose idyllic neighborhood is sent back in time in David Robert Mitchell's Spielbergian dinosaur adventure.
"The End of Oak Street" is sometimes scary, more so than the last few lumbering "Jurassic" sequels. And sometimes it’s a hoot. Intentionally or not? A bit of both, which is the film’s knowing but innocent stupido-kitsch dynamic.
Nothing brings a family together quite like a parade of dinosaurs running amok in the neighborhood. "The End of Oak Street" is a thrilling throwback adventure about a suburban Detroit family trying to hold it together while dealing with a…
The End of Oak Street The characters in “The End of Oak Street” aren’t happy to see the dinosaurs, but you will be. Though it’s not actually affiliated with the franchise, the sci-fi adventure movie...
Written and Directed by David Robert Mitchell Staring Anne Hathaway, Ewan McGregor, Maisy Stella ★★★1/2 HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — When was the last time you saw a movie featuring dinosaurs that was not part of the "Jurassic Park" franchise? It is admittedly a bold move to borrow one of the …
At the end of the block in David Robert Mitchell’s The End of Oak Street, is a cul-de-sac with a telephone pole in the middle and wires radiating out like the cables of a big top. It’s a fitting touch for a breakneck, carnivalesque movie made with throwback showmanship.
David Robert Mitchell has put in his time watching Steven Spielberg movies, and it shows in his latest movie, “The End of Oak Street.” This movie captures many of the beats one might expect from a 1980s Spielberg blockbuster, but it falls short by giving us well-performed yet ultimately flat charact…
The new Anne Hathaway movie, The End of Oak Street, is an exercise in Larry Tate-ism. To explain to those who aren't 147 years old like me, Larry Tate was the advertising executive on the sitcom Bewitched whose opinions would shift drastically depending on what his client would say.
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) -- “The End of Oak Street” is getting comparisons to “Jurassic Park” based on the premise that dinosaurs are hunting and killing modern people. That is if you accept the idea that 1982 is modern.
Just when you thought every possible dinosaur movie concept had been explored, Hollywood finds a new Tyrannosaurus rex-infused twist.The End of Oak Street (PG-13) is the newest film to unleash dinosaurs on the big screen, only this time the prehistoric creatures are ravaging a 1980s American neighbo…
