The Tangential

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Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune” is an engrossing epic, truly a must-see theatrical experience. It’s everything you hope and more.

“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.

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.

The Foundation is entering a series of existential crises, without instruction but with the assurance that somehow things will all work out.

“Foundation” isn’t quite as dilute as the “eye-sci-fi” Isaac Asimov most disdained, but it takes ample liberties. Will they pay off?

Unfortunately, the new biopic fails Tammy Faye as a character: we see the tragedy of her story, but not her complexity as a person.

Like its pilot hero, this debut novel by former flight attendant T.J. Newman makes a promise and aims to keep it.

Though uneven, “Aquelarres” marks a welcome stage in the gradual return of live independent theater in all its wonderful weirdness.

Cavan Scott does for the High Republic what Episode IV did for the original Star Wars series: pushing the frontiers of a fantastic world.

“NASA Space Shuttle” is a fascinating time capsule and a reminder of a strange, wonderful period in the history of space exploration.

In one of Minnesota’s first indoor productions since the pandemic struck, Theatre Elision presents an atmospheric a capella musical.

“Heatwave” is an impressively cinematic book for one so interior; we see its adolescent protagonist from both inside and out.