Venice Film Festival: ‘Dune’ Leaves Us With 3 Big Queries

The spice should flow. But will audiences go?

Denis Villeneuve’s remarkably anticipated “Dune” premiered Friday at the Venice Film Competition, an unconventional spot to debut a sci-fi franchise-starter that expense upward of $160 million. Then all over again, “Dune” is not your standard tentpole.

It’s one thing dreamier and weirder, a motion picture that straddles the line involving auteurist artwork-film and studio blockbuster so provocatively that even after viewing it, I simply cannot very predict how “Dune” will fare when it comes out in theaters (and on HBO Max) on Oct. 22. When I remaining my screening, the initial critic I spoke to was thoroughly besotted. The next fled the theater as if Villeneuve had planted a bomb there.

Still, soon after a ten years of Marvel films designed with large-stage craftsmanship but handful of official risks, it is bracing to get a movie of this scale that will take

Man leaves homophobic letter on inclusive art gallery, family members calls it ‘hate crime’

EDMONTON (CityNews) — A front garden artwork set up in Edmonton that aims to show assist for all those dealing with trauma or oppression — including Indigenous, Muslim, Black and LGBTQ2S+ communities — was matter to what entrepreneurs are contacting a “hate criminal offense.”

The objective of the 127th Garden Gallery, on the entrance lawn of Dellas Wreikkinen’s residence, is to boost really like and togetherness.

But what 9-year-old Augustus uncovered on the art gallery Monday was anything at all but: a typed-up letter sharing homophobic rhetoric.

“We basically read through the letter with our son,” stated Wreikkinen. “He was the first 1 to examine it. He crumpled the letter up and threw it out. We did retrieve it, due to the fact it’s evidence in what I think about a detest criminal offense.”

Safety footage exhibits a gentleman biking up to the Backyard garden Gallery Monday close to