Films

Dune: Part Two

2024

Paul Atreides has embedded himself with the Fremen, learning their warfare and their water discipline, moving toward the reckoning he believes is owed to him. Villeneuve builds the second half of his Herbert adaptation as a war film that earns its battles through accumulation — the geography of Arrakis, the internal politics of the Fremen, the competing pressures of messianic expectation — so that when the violence arrives it carries institutional weight rather than spectacle for its own sake. Zendaya's Chani, largely sidelined in Part One, becomes the film's structural conscience here, the perspective that resists the myth even as Paul moves deeper into it.

The Devil Wears Prada

2006

A Midwestern journalism graduate lands a job she can barely spell — assistant to Miranda Priestly, the editor of a fashion magazine whose organizational gravity bends entire industries. David Frankel runs it as a workplace comedy that earns its dramatic pivot: the first half plays the culture gap for sharp laughs, the second turns quietly on what the protagonist is becoming by learning to survive it. What makes the film work as a formal object is Streep's performance, which refuses to play the tyrant for camp. Miranda speaks softly, rarely repeats herself, and the camera gives her the room a scene's true power source deserves. Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci fill the margins with precision.

The Shadow's Edge

2025

Dhurandhar: The Revenge

2026