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I had no experience with Dune before I watched Denis Villeneuve’s 2021 film adaptation, and that lack of grand expectations…
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“You can’t lift the stone without being ready for the snake that’s revealed.” —Nils Bohr, Oppenhiemer In my previous article,…
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It’s been quite a couple of months for labor and for Hollywood (both independently and together). We don’t have any…
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Are the droids of the Star Wars universe sentient? As the world’s most popular space fantasy franchise podraces toward its…
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