Author: Mark Meszoros
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‘Dune: Part Two’ cinematographer Greig Fraser likes shooting gritty worlds
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Denis Villeneuve and Greig Fraser decided to start by going dark. The director-cinematographer tandem from 2021 science fiction hit “Dune” were looking for an interesting way to begin its just-debuted sequel, “Dune: Part Two,” that would put audiences back in novelist Frank Herbert’s influential universe and specifically back on the desert planet Arrakis, but do…
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‘Society of the Snow’ review: Bayona returns to disaster drama in stellar form
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Already dramatized in the 1993 movie “Alive,” the struggle of those who initially survived the 1972 crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 in the Andes mountains to remain among the living gets a gripping and emotionally compelling new telling in “Society of the Snow.” Now streaming on Netflix, the latter hits several of the…