Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024

Three firm thumps into the Arrakis sand is all you need to summon a sandworm in Denis Villeneuve's "Dune: Part Two." It's almost as easy as hailing a cab or calling for the check.

The big buggers can't resist the sound, which is a little like how I feel taking in all the vibrations of...

Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024

Timothée Chalamet and Austin Butler were really looking forward to their fight.

The actors had been training, separately, with a Kali instructor in Los Angeles to prepare for the climactic showdown between Paul Atreides and Feyd Rautha in Denis Villeneuve's "Dune: Part Two." When they...

Friday, Feb. 9, 2024

Denis Villeneuve doesn't feel like he came back to Arrakis for "Dune: Part Two." In his mind, he never left.

The sequel, which opens in theaters on March 1, is the culmination of a six-year filmmaking journey, preceded by 40 years of dreaming about it. And it's one that Christopher Nolan...

Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2024

Christopher Nolan has, by any account, had a banner year with "Oppenheimer." But "Tenet" was still on his mind.

The palindromic spy thriller starring John David Washington and Robert Pattinson was released at a tricky time during the pandemic, when many theaters were open internationally...

Tuesday, Mar. 1, 2022

Writer-director Siân Heder’s CODA earned Best Picture distinction at the 5th annual Hollywood Critics Association Film Awards held at the Avalon Hollywood in Los Angeles on Monday (2/28). CODA also won for Best Adapted Screenplay (Heder) and Supporting Actor (Troy Kotsur)....

Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022

The awards season norm has seen the nearly annual occurrence of at least one difference between the lineups of Best Director Oscar and the DGA Award nominees. In only five of the 74 years of the DGA Awards have the Guild nominations exactly mirrored their Academy Award counterparts.

This...

Sunday, Oct. 24, 2021

Denis Villeneuve's "Dune" debuted with $40.1 million in ticket sales in its opening weekend in North America, drawing a large number of moviegoers to see the thundering sci-fi epic on the big screen despite it also being available to stream in homes. 

Warner Bros. launched the Legendary...

Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2021

A cool wind sweeps through the sands of "Dune," Denis Villeneuve's chilly, majestic adaptation of Frank Herbert's classic 1965 science-fiction novel.

Hot as it may be on Arrakis, the desert planet that draws the universe's most powerful interests to its mineral-rich but inhospitable sands...

Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2021

It was the eyes that drew Denis Villeneuve to "Dune." 

Long before he'd decided to become a filmmaker, he was just a teenager browsing a bookstore when he spotted the cover of Frank Herbert's 1965 novel. But it wasn't a hard sell for the biology obsessed 14-year-old who had already...

Friday, Sep. 3, 2021

Denis Villeneuve's adaption of Frank Herbert's "Dune" was always envisioned as two films. But even if the sequel is anything but a certainty, it's already been a "dream" for the Canadian director and his star Timothée Chalamet. 

"Simply put, this was the honor of a lifetime for me,"...

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