epic
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It’s just an epic disaster on so many fronts.
From Slate â Oct. 6, 2026
Elia Kazan’s movie, written by Paul Osborn, barely covers the last third of Steinbeck’s 600-page epic.
From Salon â Oct. 3, 2026
This epic tale of love, loss, revenge and reconciliation might still have room for another chapter.
From BBC â Oct. 1, 2026
Hilton has been campaigning hard, as though he has more than the merest speck of a chance of pulling an epic upset and somehow prevailing.
From Los Angeles Times â Oct. 1, 2026
Butler had been weaned on the old Southern epic tales about Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Jeb Stuart, and Nathan Bedford Forrest, and so he, too, believed in the South’s possible redemption.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
In this week’s episode of The Envelope, ‘Frankenstein’s’ Oscar Isaac and ‘Sinners’’ Wunmi Mosaku talk about making personal connections to their hit horror epics.
From Los Angeles Times â Sep. 16, 2026
“I see their traces everywhere,” he says of those epics in his introduction.
From The Wall Street Journal â Aug. 28, 2026
Translations of the Greek epics would influence generations.
From The Wall Street Journal â Aug. 28, 2026
Even if Christopher Nolan‘s film adaptation of “The Odyssey” is a smash hit, Matt Damon doesn’t think we’ll see a boom in epics of a similar scale.
From Salon â Jul. 12, 2026
King praised the students who had, as he put it, “fashioned...a creative protest that is destined to be one of the glowing epics of our time....”
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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