Talking ‘Dune’: Book and Movies

A new year means new books are on the way! So many new books. On this week’s episode, host Gilbert Cruz talks with fellow Book Review editors Joumana Khatib and MJ Franklin about the upcoming fiction and nonfiction titles they’re most anticipating between now and April.Here are t ...  Show more

Virginia Evans’s debut novel, “The Correspondent,” was published last April and became one of the publishing industry’s heartwarming champions of 2025: a slow-burn success story that gathered momentum over the summer and fall and finally topped the New York Times hardcover best-s ...  Show more

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Abby, Patrick, and Dan take on Denis Villeneuve’s Dune Parts 1 and 2, Frank He ...

This week we’re excited to present a conversation with director Denis Villeneuve, the subject of a recent retrospective presented by FLC and who’s new highly anticipated sci fi-epic, Dune: Part Two, is now in theaters worldwide courtesy of Warner Bros Pictures. The saga continues ...  Show more

C’est un véritable défi que tente de relever ces jours-ci le réalisateur canadien Denis Villeneuve : proposer une adaptation réussie au cinéma de “Dune”, le roman de science-fiction le plus vendu de l’Histoire. Depuis la parution du livre en 1965, premier opus d’une saga gal ...  Show more

Where to begin describing today’s guest and his lengthy list of accomplishments? Eric Roth is the Academy Award-winning writer responsible for films like Forrest Gump, The Insider, Munich, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and 2018’s A Star Is Born. At 77-years-old, Eric is as ...  Show more