******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…
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HBO’s “Chernobyl”: Denial can be fatal…
April 26, 1986. I’ve just finished the five-part HBO miniseries “Chernobyl” (2019), a powerful depiction of the events and aftermath of the worst nuclear disaster the world has ever seen (a ranking which includes the horrific Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan in 2011). Interestingly, the miniseries isn’t necessarily a statement against nuclear power. In fact,…