When Conan the Destroyer came out in the summer of 1984, those of us who were playing Dungeons and Dragons were still pumped over Conan The Barbarian. The VCR revolution had allowed us to keep watching the original film although it was in pan and scan. A bunch of us were also excited because this … Read more
This review contains spoilers for Dune: Prophecy episode 1. For years, fans considered Dune an unfilmable novel. Dense with lore, full of epigrams and aphorisms, and featuring an inversion of a classical messiah figure, Frank Herbert‘s epic seemed to only work on the page, where the omniscient narrator can explain
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