Popcorn Perspectives with Danny Minton
Week of August 17, 2026
The End of Oak Street
Rated PG-13 for some strong language, bloody images, some strong violent content and suggestive material.
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 85%
In Theaters
Ewan McGregor and Anne Hathaway play a young couple trying to raise their family in a suburban American neighborhood. They have their little problems and fights, but they are forced to become a tighter-knit unit when one night a mysterious cosmic rip occurs and their neighborhood is transported to prehistoric times where dinosaurs begin to torment their streets. There’s not much to this film when it comes to surprises or story. If you watch the trailer, you get what you think you’re going to get: a quick roller coaster ride full of ancient reptiles and big scares. Thankfully, the movie really delivers. It jumps right into the thick of the plot rather quickly, and once the action hits, it rarely lets up. None of it really makes any sense, and honestly, you don’t need it to. This is supposed to make you dream up a scenario of what would happen if dinosaurs tormented your home, and for the most part, it really works. There are some dumb character choices, but at least they all lead to fun exchanges, and the plot holes are easily ignorable. Production-wise, the movie is way better than it should be, with a gorgeous score from Michael Giacchino (Up) and
terrific special effects, both digital and practical, which use our modern understanding of what dinosaurs looked like, rather than what we saw from 1993’s Jurassic Park and its subsequent chapters. The movie probably isn’t going to get much attention in a summer full of huge over-performing tentpoles, but it’s a nice light diversion that is both frightening and fun. B