(courtesy IMP Awards)
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“Our house, our neighborhood, our whole street has moved.” Filmed for IMAX. After a mysterious cosmic event rips Oak Street from suburbia and transports their neighborhood to someplace unknown, the Platt family soon discovers that their very survival depends on them sticking together as they navigate their now unrecognizable surroundings. The End of Oak Street, formerly known as Flowervale Street, is written and directed by acclaimed American filmmaker David Robert Mitchell, director of the movies The Myth of the American Sleepover, It Follows, and Under the Silver Lake previously. It’s produced by J.J. Abrams, Tommy Harper, Matt Jackson, Hannah Minghella, David Robert Mitchell. Made by Bad Robot, Good Fear Content, Jackson Pictures, Tommy Harper Productions. (courtesy First Showing)
I love me a good dino movie but much as I enjoy the Jurassic Park/Jurassic World franchise, and will likely keep watching because #PrehistoricReasons, it’s exciting to see dinosaurs and pterosaurs make all kinds of murderous merry in the middle of ordinary American suburbia.
Well, one disembodied slice of it anyway which has been uprooted from its usual urban sprawl-y moorings and thrust back over 65 million years to when … well, you know.
The End of Oak Street looks like a brilliant, adrenaline-fueled fight for literally escapist survival and I am absolutely here for it.
Just stay in the house, will ya?
The End of Oak Street opens in Australia on 13 August and U.S. on 14 August.