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Brilliant casting and a lot of fancy desert-walking and sandworm-riding

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Imagine a world devoid of colour or warmth, foundering amid environmental catastrophe and tribal factions that threaten to bring humanity to the edge of fatal fanaticism.

Now let’s talk about Dune: Part Two.

In this big, basso profundo follow-up to 2021’s first instalment, we catch up with Timothée Chalamet’s Paul Atreides and Zendaya’s Chani on the arid planet of Arrakis, fighting off a Harkonnen ambush and making their way to a redoubt of the Fremen, the ragtag group of freedom fighters trying to protect

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