******SILOS OF SPOILERS!****** Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow (“The Hurt Locker”) first came onto my radar with a rural Romeo & Juliet vampire film. No, not the “Twilight” movies; the good one, “Near Dark,” from 1987. Since then, her reputation has grown tremendously, with action films such as “Point Break” (1991), before her Best Director Oscar…
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Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune Part 2” finishes the first book, inviting comparisons and a sequel…
******SANDWORM-SIZED SPOILERS!****** After seeing Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune Part 2” last weekend, I went into this column realizing that everyone and their mutated baby sisters would also be publishing reviews of the film. So I decided to offer something beyond just praise for this latest epic from Frank Herbert’s 60-year old sci-fi universe, by comparing how…
“Dune: Part One” (2021) is as good an adaptation as we’ll ever get…
*****SPICE-LADEN SPOILERS AHEAD!!***** Dune It Again. The path of Frank Herbert’s seminal 1965 science fiction novel to the screen has been almost as harsh and dangerous as conditions on the desert world of Arrakis. Over the last five decades we’ve seen (and almost seen) a surreal, aborted Alejandro Jodorowksy adaptation (circa 1975), a colorful 1984…