When I walked into the theater for Dune: Part Two (Read our review here!), I was both anticipating the best and the worst. I have yet to be disappointed by a Denis Villeneuve film. Each new film he creates is more grand than the last. He continues to try new things. Dune: Part One was a film I was
It took guts to split Dune into two parts. After all, the previous attempt at adapting the Frank Herbert sci-fi novel was a bit of a mess from David Lynch in the '80s. Enter Denis Villeneuve, who had a vision for the epic story. The only issue was that they did split the story up. Comparing the two
We've been down this path before. You get a visionary filmmaker that wants to take on the hefty material of Frank Herbert, and then they give a beautiful visual feast. The first time around we would have have Alejandro Jodorowsky's nuts take on the series. That didn't get off the ground, but we did
For better or for worse, the Cold War action-comedy lives! 35 years after the fall of the Soviet Union, John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein have meshed the longstanding Odd Couple road trip with Iron Curtain hijinks and modern action sensibilities for a surprisingly solid but conceptually
Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia gives us a true puppetmistress in the form of Boraqchin in Ep. 11 "An Ungraceful Stone". This episode has shown her to be a master planner and manipulator, making her quite the political genius. However, this episode also reveals that the people she's puppeting don't
Have you ever considered the similarities between the landmark 1978 slasher Halloween and 1982’s First Blood? In both films, a man of few words arrives in a small town that treats him like the bogeyman, and when circumstances escalate to the point of murder, a specialist who’s highly familiar