Dune director Denis Villeneuve bashed the Marvel Cinematic Universe, claiming the popular movies are nothing more than “cut and paste” of other movies. From Insider: The Canadian filmmaker, who is best known for making big-budget blockbusters like “Arrival” and “Blade Runner 2049,” was asked about the MCU and whether he was pessimistic about the future …
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Dune, the $168 million Warner Bros. movie based on the first half of the science fiction novel by Frank Herbert, comes out on October 22. It will appear both on HBO Max and in movie theaters. I’m a huge fan of the novel. It remains to be seen if I will be a fan of …
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If you think Star Wars has become too political, there’s something you should know. The good guys in Star Wars were based on the National Liberation Front of Southern Vietnam (NLF). They were more commonly known as the Viet Cong. The communist guerrilla combatants who fought against American forces in the Vietnam war served as an …
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With Gina Carano getting let go by Lucasfilms for inappropriate social media posts, the action figures for her character, Cara Dune, are heating up on the secondary market. By that, I mean they are commanding ridiculous prices. The two figures shown in the above photo are listed on eBay with a starting bid of $499. …
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Contrary to what you might have read on right-wing Twitter, Lucasfilms didn’t fire Gina Carano for being a conservative. She didn’t work for them when she posted those garbage memes on social media. From NPR: “Gina Carano is not currently employed by Lucasfilm and there are no plans for her to be in the future,” …
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Gina Carano, the actress who plays Cara Dune on Disney Plus’ The Mandalorian, is once again getting flack for things she’s shared on social media. From Variety: Carano shared the posts on her story late Tuesday night. One of the posts she shared compared today’s divided political climate to Nazi Germany. “Jews were beaten in …
