Ellie

I just got back from a walk in Hyde park, headphones in, Max Richter playing, after a sweltering 30C day in London. I stopped halfway to take my trainers off and pad my feet on the grass. This is where I often go when I need to breathe, and not to think.I’ve been a nature nerd since the days of making mud pies (and grass on the side), turning up stones to see worms and woodlice, and foraging for blackberries with the other kids in the village, often to make some sort of inedible fruity soup.When I think about this special…

Image: Disney/PixarFor almost three decades, computer animation studio Pixar has captivated audiences all over the world with an abundance of original stories, unforgettable characters, unique settings, and complex emotions. Pixar makes films that aren’t just great animated films, but great films period. So ranking them is damn near impossible. But we’ve gone and done it anyway.What follows is a ranking of the 26 current Pixar movies. This list was originally published in 2017 around the release of Coco, the 19th film,…

Image: HBOHBO and Sony are doing a great job of letting us see as little of their live-action adaptation of The Last of Us as possible. The first official picture from the adaptation of Naughty Dog’s critically acclaimed zombie game series was bright, but also just of the backs of its two lead stars. This second look, is... well, the direct opposite.Just revealed at the ongoing Summer Games Fest gaming live show, this new still from the HBO series actually lets us see Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey as Joel and Ellie,…

Image via Universal Pictures Ellie Sattler didn’t have her own story in the Jurassic Park series, so director Colin Trevorrow gave her one with Jurassic World Dominion. Trevorrow told IndieWire that he wanted to honor the character, as Ellie was the only member of 1993’s Jurassic Park paleontologist trio who hadn’t been the “engine” of one of the sequels. More importantly, he wanted to give Ellie’s actor, Laura Dern, the respect she deserved. “I think that the roles they play in this film are a sign of great…

Sam Neill might be the face of Jurassic Park, but he’s not particularly obsessed with it. Speaking to the actor on the occasion of the latest film, Jurassic World Dominion, he reveals that he’s only seen the original film maybe four times, all of which were when it came out in 1993. In fact, he was walking around a mall recently and couldn’t quite place the oddly familiar music he heard playing over the speakers. That music was John Williams’ theme to Jurassic Park.In 1993, Neill first appeared on screen as paleontologist…

Image via Universal Pictures OG Jurassic Park producer Kathleen Kennedy has a feministic infatuation for Laura Dern’s character Ellie Sattler. Sattler, a young doctor of paleobotany when she debuted in 1993’s Jurassic Park, impressed Kennedy with her “strength and agency.” Moreover, as Kennedy told Variety, it was the line “Dinosaurs eat man. Woman inherits the earth” that was particularly moving. “ was independent, willful and able to confidently say a line like that. was this incredible paleobotanist who…