rebecca ferguson
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Dune Is the Jaw-Dropping Sci-Fi Epic You’ve Been Waiting For
Dune feels like a product from another time in Hollywood history. A movie with the scope and vision of modern blockbusters that tells a complex, mature story usually reserved for independent dramas. It’s hugely ambitious, not always straightforward, but accessible and lived-in in a way that makes watching it completely engrossing, even when the thrills…
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Warner Bros. Lets Anyone Be in Its Reminiscence Trailer With a Cool New Deepfake Generator
In general, I am wary of deepfakes, primarily because they can be used for evil and be kind of creepy. There are exceptions, such as the YouTuber that made a way better deepfake version of a young Luke Skywalker in The Mandalorian than Lucasfilm’s CG division did. Recently, Warner Bros. debuted an impressive deepfake marketing…
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How Westworld Prepared Lisa Joy for Her Ambitious Feature Debut, Reminiscence
First-time filmmakers usually start their careers with something simple. Something small. Something to prove they can tell a story, which can then be used as a calling card to do bigger and better things. Very few first-time filmmakers start off with a film that’s largely set on water, with scenes underwater, about a future where…
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Dune’s New Trailer Is All About Paul Atreides’ Great and Terrible Destiny
The prophecy has spoken, and it says we’re all in big trouble. The latest trailer has surfaced from the sand for Denis Villeneuve’s Dune, which sees Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) facing off against two of the greatest enemies his family has ever known: Baron Harkonnen (Stellan Skarsgård), and himself.