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Dune: A Sublime yet Bleak Adaptation
by Ted Giese Focusing on the first half of Frank Herbert’s 1965 science fiction novel, Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of Dune chronicles a young prince’s tragic coming of age amidst a…
No Time to Die: 007’s Swann Song
by Ted Giese This is the end. Hold your breath and count to ten. At least, it’s the definitive end of Daniel Craig as James Bond. Following the events of…
The Suicide Squad: Caught Between Heroic and Psychotic
by Ted Giese In what can be considered a true sequel to David Ayer’s 2006 film Suicide Squad, James Gunn’s 2021 The Suicide Squad clearly benefited from less studio interference….
The Green Knight—A Tale Tried, Tested, and Inverted
by Ted Giese This eerie and foreboding retelling of the epic late 14th-century Middle English poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a purposeful inversion of the long-studied and…
Saint and Sinner in Disney’s Cruella
by Ted Giese In Disney’s new movie Cruella, Estella/Cruella is an orphan girl with a split personality—one half kind, the other half cruel. While on the run she falls in…
The French Dispatch: Colourful, Obsessive Show-and-Tell
by Ted Giese Set in the fictional French town of Ennui-sur-Blasé, Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch chronicles the publication of the last edition of “The French Dispatch,” a supplement in…
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