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As it turns out, Christmas did not come early this past weekend at the box office, even with a nominal holiday action movie playing in theaters around the world. Indeed, the long troubled and forthcoming Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans two-hander, Red One, saw its Yuletide hopes dashed over the

What is the most underrated James Bond movie? That is a question that might have as much to do with when you ask it as it does the films themselves. Take On Her Majesty’s Secret Service for example. Over years and decades, it was generally treated as the black sheep

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

Let’s say you, like most people, haven’t read any of Frank Herbert‘s novels, but you’ve watched and rewatched both of Denis Villeneuve‘s Dune movies again and again. You should be set to jump right in to the new prequel series Dune: Prophecy, right? As much as HBO and showrunners Diane

Warning: contains spoilers for The Mirror and the Light season 2 episode 2.  If only Hilary Mantel had lived 10 lifetimes, she might have rehabilitated 10 other historical figures as skilfully as she did Thomas Cromwell. Mantel overwrote history’s shorthand for Cromwell, transforming him from a venal brute into a flesh-and-blood man