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4K Ultra HD Review – Dune: Prophecy – The Complete First Season

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Dune: Prophecy – The Complete First Season, 2024. Directed by Anna Foerster, John Cameron, and Richard J. Lewis. Starring Emily Watson, Olivia Williams, Travis Fimmel, Jodhi May, Sarah-Sofie Boussnina, Chloe Lea, Chris Mason, Shalom Brune-Franklin, Mark Strong, Jade Anouka, Edward Davis, Josh Heuston, Faoileann Cunningham, Aoife Hinds, and Mark Addy. SYNOPSIS: The first six-episode season […]

Dune: Edge of a Crysknife: Hiding Among the Harkonnens coming in July from Boom! Studios

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Boom! Studios has announced that writers Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson and artist Simone Ragazzoni are set to further expand the world of Frank Herbert’s Dune in July with the all-new one shot comic Dune: Edge of a Crysknife: Hiding Among the Harkonnens. In the sands of Arrakis, the Fremen plan to strike at […]

Massive Beta weekend for Dune: Awakening coming in May

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With the launch date for Dune: Awakening getting ever closer (10th June), Funcom has announced that a large-scale Beta weekend will run from 9th-12th May on Steam. Those players who manage to get a place on this massive Beta will have the opportunity to immerse themselves in Frank Herbert’s rich and imaginative world. Meanwhile a new […]

Robert Pattinson tapped to play the villain in Dune 3

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Robert Pattinson is currently walking the beaches of Greece filming Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, and if rumours are to be believed The Batman and Tenet star is set to keep the sand between his toes for a key role in Denis Villeneuve’s Dune 3.  According to Deadline, Villeneuve is looking to add to an already […]

Explore the planet of Arrakis with Dune: Awakening video

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With the launch of Dune: Awakening set for 20th May, Funcom has released a new video that takes a look at the world of Arrakis and showcases the scale and scope of this planet. Watch the new video below to explore this desert world… Despite Arrakis being classed as a desert planet, there is surprisingly a […]

Dune: Awakening sets May release with new trailer

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The spice will flow in May as Funcom has announced that Dune: Awakening is set to launch on Steam on May 20th, sending players to the harsh desert planet of Arrakis for an open-world multiplayer survival experience that will draw from both Frank Herbert’s sci-fi masterpiece and Denis Villeneuve’s blockbuster movies. Check out the new […]

David Lynch: American Cinema’s Great Enigma

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Simon Thompson explores the career of the late, great David Lynch… To start this article off as simply as possible, David Lynch, one of American cinema’s greatest idiosyncratic directors is gone. While I knew that his health had sadly taken a turn for the worse since 2020, it still feels almost impossible to come to […]

New Dune: Awakening trailer shows off the beauty of Arrakis

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Funcom has released a new trailer for their upcoming open world, multiplayer survival game, Dune: Awakening. This new video (see below) showcases some of the beautifully modelled biomes that players will experience as they run, ride or even fly over the surface of Arrakis. Although mainly a desert planet, the world of Arrakis is home […]

Denis Villeneuve has “an appetite and desire” for Dune: Messiah to be next film

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Last year Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two was released to wide and massive acclaim as it completed the story of Frank Herbert’s Dune, the first book in his epic sci-fi saga. Villeneuve has made his plans to adapt Dune: Messiah known  in order to close out the story of Paul Atreides, but he was going to take a break […]