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Screen Anarchists On DUNE: PART TWO
Back when we created our ScreenAnarchy top-10 list of 2021, I lamented the fact that I didn't rally our troops to make a group review for Denis Villeneuve's Dune. Because even though the film topped the leaderboard that year, opinions...
DUNE: PART TWO Review: Still Handsome. Still Obligatory. Stilgar.
If it does nothing else, Dune: Part Two completes the circle of the Fatboy Slim-Arrakis EU. By opening with Christopher Walken’s Emperor Of The Known Universe, this might just be the quirkiest, and most unexpectedly sly, thing about the...
THE SLEEPER MUST AWAKEN: MAKING DUNE Exclusive Clip
The brand new feature-length documentary ‘The Sleeper Must Awaken: Making Dune’ chronicles the creation of David Lynch’s 1984 adaptation of Frank Herbert’s beloved sci-fi epic which starred Kyle MacLachlan, Patrick Stewart, Sean Young, Virginia Madsen, Brad Dourif, Jürgen Prochnow, Max...
Friday One Sheet: ENCOUNTER vs. ENEMY
Typically, I have nothing but praise for design house, B O N D. However, today, for their design for psychological sci-fi thriller Encounter, I want to demonstrate how uninspired their compositional riff on a much better poster looks. So, the...
Review: DUNE, Unquestionably Neato, Yet Feels Obligatory
Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson and Oscar Isaac star in part one of an epic adventure, directed by Denis Villeneuve.
Toronto 2021 Review: DUNE, A Handsome, But Stoic, Do Over
There is a row of palm trees in front of the outer wall of the capital city of Arrakis, the desert planet also known as Dune. They require massive amounts of resources, and have grown straight & tall, tended by...
DUNE Trailer Fleshes Out the Story
The new (and maybe final?) trailer for Dune has dropped, this time revealing a lot more of the plot, for those who might be unfamiliar. And I'm guessing that who the studio is trying to attract; they know fans of...
First Image From Denis Villeneuve's DUNE
Denis Villeneuve's big budget Dune is one of the few 2020 blockbusters that has not adjusted its release date in light of the current global pandemic. This is because it is set for a december release of this year. That may...
ScreenAnarchy's Favourite Films of 2017
Another year over, and what an annus horribilis it proved to be in so many ways. But away from the political atrocities that took place in pretty much every country you care to mention, and the sexual harassment scandals that...
Review: BLADE RUNNER 2049 More Than Justifies Its Existence
Is Deckard a replicant? Just after the identity of "Deep Throat" and who the song "You're So Vain" is about, that has been one of the most persistent cultural questions of the past several decades. Now though, we know the...
BLADE RUNNER 2049 International Trailer: The Future Has Finally Been Unearthed
A new international trailer for Blade Runner 2049 gives all due respect to Ridley Scott and Harrison Ford, but what drew my attention on this latest marketing tool are the elements that suggest the sequel will not be simply a...
BLADE RUNNER 2049 Trailer Turns Another Page
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Denis Villeneuve in Talks to Direct Legendary's DUNE
Denis Villeneuve's star continues to rocket into the cinematic heavens with news from Variety that the Bladerunner 2049 and Arrival director is in talks to direct Legendary's Dune. Legendary secured the rights to Frank Herbert's novel before American Thanksgiving...
BLADE RUNNER 2049 Teaser: K Finds Deckard
Probably one of the most anticipated films of 2017, Blade Runner 2049 has a lot to live up to, given the cult status of its predecessor. But with star Harrison Ford returning as Deckard, Ryan Gosling in the lead (as...
Destroy All Monsters: The Tyranny of Straight Lines in ARRIVAL
Spoilers for Arrival, even if (on one level) Arrival makes a pretty compelling argument that spoilers do not matter. Everything is at right angles in Arrival, which is one of the strategies the film uses to disorient and disrupt its...
Review: ARRIVAL Tackles Big Ideas With Pure Elegance
They should have sent a poet. The imagining of humankind's first contact with alien lifeforms is territory well-mined in popular fiction and probably best executed in Robert Zemeckis's wonderful 1997 film Contact. With such great works in the past, is...
BLADE RUNNER 2049: Sequel's Title Sets a Date
If you like keeping up with these kind of things the title for the Blade Runner sequel has just been announced, Blade Runner 2049. We realize this does not say much other than set the sequel thirty years after the...
AnarchyVision: Toronto 2016 Highlights
Some of the main hits from the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), showcasing some of the highlights of this year's fest, including La La Land, Arrival, Moonlight, Manchester By The Sea and more, are covered in the watch, which...
Toronto 2016 Review: ARRIVAL Delivers Complex Ideas in an Exquisite Package
They should have sent a poet. The imagining of humankind's first contact with alien lifeforms is territory well-mined in popular fiction and probably best executed in Robert Zemeckis's wonderful 1997 film Contact. With such great works in the past, is...
Villeneuve's ARRIVAL Teaser Arrives
Canadian director Denis Villeneuve has all the critical acclaim any director could ever hope for and with Blade Runner 2 up on his docket next he's poised to make the leap in to mainstream success in by far the biggest...
