Appetite for distraction

It’s hard to believe Jurassic Park is thought of as an ‘old film’ by young folk but it’s a stone-cold classic - no irony needed

Jurassic Park: 25 years later, the film looks as fresh as a daisy and as visceral as the first time you saw it

I went to see Jurassic Park five times in the cinema. To this day I am baffled by how I managed to achieve those repeat viewings. I was 12 and lived a good 12 kilometres from the one-screen cinema in Naas, with no means to propel myself there or pay for the tickets and little boxes of Fruit Pastilles (remember those?).

So, I can only deduce that my parents were in on it ...