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Visit a desert world in sci-fi saga ‘Dune’

By Tribune News Service
Published: January 7, 2022, 6:05am

The first film in Denis Villeneuve’s two-part adaptation of Frank Herbert’s sci-fi classic tops the DVD releases for the week of Jan. 11.

“Dune”: Timothee Chalamet plays young Paul Atreides, the ducal heir who realizes his destiny after arriving on the desert planet Arrakis. The cast also boasts Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Jason Momoa, Josh Brolin, Javier Bardem, Stellan Skarsgard, Dave Bautista and Zendaya.

“It’s the sheer size and scope of Villeneuve’s ‘Dune’ that initially impresses, human beings dwarfed by the size of the gaping maws of spaceships (and/or sandworms), engulfed in the cavernous spaces of brutalist concrete structures,” Tribune News Service critic Katie Walsh writes. “But the scale of the emotions, politics and story are decidedly human.”

The film, which covers the first half of the 1965 novel, “approaches Herbert’s text with a sense of almost religious reverence, carefully creating an intoxicatingly mysterious and undeniably immersive world,” Walsh writes. “The end of ‘Dune’ declares that ‘This is only the beginning,’ leaving us with the tantalizing possibilities of what’s to come in Part Two.”

Also new on DVD

“Halloween Kills”: The second film in the reboot of the Michael Myers franchise from director David Gordon Green, starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer and Andi Matichak.

“Spencer”: Set over three days around Christmas 1991, this drama from director Pablo Larrain (“Jackie”) stars Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana, spending a tense holiday with the British royal family.

“Mass”: Two sets of parents come together for a discussion in a church following a school shooting: the mother and father of the shooter, and those of one of his victims. With Jason Isaacs, Martha Plimpton, Reed Birney and Ann Dowd.

“Billions: Season Five”: The fifth season of the Showtime drama set in the world of New York finance, starring Paul Giamatti, Damian Lewis and Maggie Siff.

“Cobra Kai: Season 3”: Ralph Macchio and William Zabka reprise their roles as Daniel LaRusso and Johnny Lawrence, respectively, in the first season of the “Karate Kid” reboot on Netflix.

“Heart of Champions”: Michael Shannon stars as an army veteran who takes over as coach of a dysfunctional Ivy League rowing team.

“I’m Your Man”: Germany’s submission for best international film at the upcoming Academy Awards, this futuristic rom-com concerns an archaeologist who agrees to live with a robot named Tom for three weeks in order to secure money for her research.

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