It’s difficult to watch “Jodorowsky’s Dune” and not come to the conclusion that, on balance, it’s probably a good thing that motion picture adaptation of Frank Herbert’s ‘Dune’ didn’t actually get made. Had it been made, it would have no doubt been a psychedelic, surrealist masterwork; a curate’s egg of titanic proportions which would have bestrode cinema and sci-fi for generations but at a…

Do you think that somewhere, there’s a Twentieth Century Fox Executive kicking himself for not just giving Ridley Scott the money he wanted to make a sci-fi movie about the origin of intelligent life and the concept of meeting one’s creator? Maybe then we wouldn’t be here now, watching him tank the “Alien” franchise into the ground as he tries to keep the franchise-focussed suits happy while…

It’s difficult to watch “Jodorowsky’s Dune” and not come to the conclusion that, on balance, it’s probably a good thing that motion picture adaptation of Frank Herbert’s ‘Dune’ didn’t actually get made. Had it been made, it would have no doubt been a psychedelic, surrealist masterwork; a curate’s egg of titanic proportions which would have bestrode cinema and sci-fi for generations but at a…