News Around the Net
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This is a spectacular trailer for the final four episodes of Star Wars: The Clone Wars! I can’t wait!!
I am super-excited by this first-look at Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of Frank Herbert’s Dune!! I love Dune so much. I really like the Sci-Fi channel mini-series from 2000, and I also have a sweet spot in my heart for David Lynch’s bizarre/mostly terrible film adaptation from 1984. But I would be so, so happy for Dune to finally get the epic film adaptation it deserves. These first photos from Mr. Villeneuve’s film look terrific. I love the look of the stillsuits! The cast is epic and they all look great. I love the choice of making Liet-Kynes a woman. I love that shot of Zendaya as Chani! So far, so good…!
This is a great interview of Larry David by Maureen Dowd, discussing how the master of social distancing is handling life in isolation.
I was sad to read of the passing of Honor Blackman, who so memorably played Pussy Galore in Goldfinger back in 1964.
This is hilarious: someone seamlessly edited outtakes into actual scenes from Star Trek: The Next Generation, thus presenting us with a bizarre alternate-universe version of Next Gen where the crew are a bunch of lunatics. Here’s one:
I’m intrigued to see a rtrailer for a feature-length documentary exploring the making of Tim Burton’s classic film, Beetlejuice! The doc is called Documentary for the Recently Deceased (which is a great title, based on a joke from the film), and the film also has an awesome poster. Here’s the trailer. I can’t wait to see the full film!
This is awesome: James Gunn’s list off 27 sequel films better than the original. It’s a pretty great list!! It’s hard to argue with Mr. Gunn’s choices. There are a few films he lists that I haven’t seen (Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, Paddington 2, Blade II, Magnum Force, Swordsman), and he’s dead wrong about Batman Returns. But otherwise… wow! Hats off.
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