Season three of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” doubles down on the series’ promise: radical variety with a steady heart. The Enterprise crew flips from frothy pastiche to sober speculation, and the show invites us to enjoy both modes without apology. It plays dress-up like a repertory troupe, then puts on the lab coat and […]
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare is a film that mines the lesser-known exploits of Britain’s most roguish soldiers. This action-comedy stirs together actual events with a riotous twist, presenting a captivating mix of historical depth and boisterous humor. Based on the nonfiction bestseller by Damien Lewis, it’s about the first-ever special forces unit formed during
If “Dune” from 2021 was a preface, an introduction, breaking us gently into the dense universe of author Frank Herbert, then “Dune Part Two” is an acceleration. With each of his films, director, now auteur Denis Villeneuve, hones his craft, creating films with a brilliance that has lately only been seen in Christopher Nolan’s films.
It would never take much rebooting of Frank Herbert’s beloved “Dune” to be better than its 1984 disappointment helmed by David Lynch. Like “The Lord of the Rings” or Comic Book adaptions, the technology needed to be invented to match the imagination and world-building in the science fiction epic, long hailed the greatest of all