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May 28, 2025

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Musketeers, Dune, and a Sci-Fi Satire | Coming Attractions
By Jeff T. Dick
Forthcoming DVDs and Blu-rays for every taste, including a slapstick spin on Alexandre Dumas’s classic swashbuckler, a miniseries prequel to the Dune films, and a grim sci-fi satire about a seemingly disposable space crew member.
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Oscar-Winning Adrien Brody, a Domestic Terror Thriller, and Two Superb French Films | Fast Scans

By Jeff T. Dick
This month’s top indie and foreign films feature Adrien Brody’s gripping performance in The Brutalist, a thriller based on real events that took place in the Western U.S. in 1983, and an epic story of greed and reprisal in the French countryside.

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Wondrous Mrs. Claus Featured in Two New Titles Released September


Mrs. Claus made her debut on the written page in 1849. Over the past two centuries, as this literary and pictorial review discovered, the Christmas character was continually reimagined for juvenile and adult works of fiction, in poetry, lyrics and for musical, theatrical and film productions. 

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Jazz in Congo, Tombs in Notre-Dame, and a Glaciologist Indiana Jones | Real Reels

By Joshua Blevins Peck
Key documentaries spotlight explorer and glaciologist Lonnie Thompson, the discovery of lost sarcophagi in Notre-Dame Cathedral, and the music scene and geopolitical manipulation in postcolonial Congo.

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This Week’s New Starred Reviews

By LJ Reviews 

  • Blackman, Cally. The Color of Clothes: Fashion and Dress in Autochromes, 1907–1930. Thames & Hudson.
  • Diller, Barry. Who Knew. S. & S.
  • Levy, Shawn. Clint: The Man and the Movies. Mariner.
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