Four stars for Dune
First there was David Lynch's Dune, a turkey remembered principally for putting Sting in a nappy, and stopping Showgirls being the nadir of Kyle MacLachlan's career. Then came the television mini-series in 2000, which had the running time but not the budget to do Frank Herbert's beloved novel justice. And of course, there was Alejandro Jodorowsky's surreal vision, which was famously never made. Now at last we have what should, in theory, be the definitive Dune film, a mega-budget epic with cutting-edge visual effects, an A-list cast and crew, and a director, Denis Villeneuve (Arrival, Blade Runner 2049), who has dreamt of adapting the book for decades. Can he succeed where others (well, David Lynch and Jodorowsky) failed?