Movie Review: “Dune” is a Page-Turner of a Movie
Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune” is an engrossing epic, truly a must-see theatrical experience. It’s everything you hope and more.
Movie Review: “The Last Duel” Heaves with the Weight of Its Purpose
“The Last Duel” has a Me Too point to make, but it knows the points of its battling beefcakes’ literal lances are what it’s really selling.
“Foundation” S1E4: Into the Mystic
David S. Goyer’s series continues to often feel as if it’s lifted the words but not the music of Asimov’s classic stories.
“Foundation” Episode Three: Asimov’s Heart, If Not His Plot
The Foundation is entering a series of existential crises, without instruction but with the assurance that somehow things will all work out.
“Foundation” Apple TV+ Series Evidences Asimov’s Vision, But Needs More Vision From Filmmakers
“Foundation” isn’t quite as dilute as the “eye-sci-fi” Isaac Asimov most disdained, but it takes ample liberties. Will they pay off?
Movie Review: “The Eyes of Tammy Faye” Fails To Touch the Soul
Unfortunately, the new biopic fails Tammy Faye as a character: we see the tragedy of her story, but not her complexity as a person.
Audiobook Review: “Falling” Finds Terror In the Skies
Like its pilot hero, this debut novel by former flight attendant T.J. Newman makes a promise and aims to keep it.
Theater Review: The Birth Play Project’s “Aquelarres” Brings Strange Magic to the Open Air
Though uneven, “Aquelarres” marks a welcome stage in the gradual return of live independent theater in all its wonderful weirdness.
Audiobook Review: Fatal Fair Jars Jedi in “Star Wars: The High Republic: The Rising Storm”
Cavan Scott does for the High Republic what Episode IV did for the original Star Wars series: pushing the frontiers of a fantastic world.
Book Review: 40 Years After Its Launch, NASA’s Space Shuttle Continues To Fascinate
“NASA Space Shuttle” is a fascinating time capsule and a reminder of a strange, wonderful period in the history of space exploration.
Theater Review: Theatre Elision Finds Safe Harbor With “Islander”
In one of Minnesota’s first indoor productions since the pandemic struck, Theatre Elision presents an atmospheric a capella musical.
Audiobook Review: Victor Jestin’s “Heatwave” Is a Poignant Sizzler
“Heatwave” is an impressively cinematic book for one so interior; we see its adolescent protagonist from both inside and out.