epic
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If there’s resistance to giving Christopher Nolan back-to-back best picture winners, the greatest threat might come from a movie occupying the same lane, an auteur-driven epic lauded by critics and embraced by audiences.
From Los Angeles Times â Oct. 12, 2026
Out of these materials Milton fashioned a new epic focused on the temptations of forbidden knowledge.
From The Wall Street Journal â Oct. 9, 2026
“Our epic deployment ends today and what this team achieved is amazing,” Keeler said Thursday.
From Los Angeles Times â Oct. 8, 2026
It’s just an epic disaster on so many fronts.
From Slate â Oct. 6, 2026
Her nerves getting the best of her, Seven began to talk nonstop and, over Thorn’s grandma Lilou’s famous fluffy pancakes, recounted the epic fight of the day before.
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
The production was announced in March this year as a "rambunctious comedy of deception and disguise inspired by the grand swashbuckling epics of stage and screen".
From BBC â Oct. 11, 2026
“I see their traces everywhere,” he says of those epics in his introduction.
From The Wall Street Journal â Aug. 28, 2026
Although he established himself with futuristic films like “Alien” and “Blade Runner,” he showed a knack for emotional drama with 1991’s “Thelma & Louise” and for historical epics like 2000’s “Gladiator.”
From Los Angeles Times â Aug. 26, 2026
Even when the record veers from its characters, strong thematic threads—many of which are borrowed from western epics of yore—remain.
From The Wall Street Journal â Aug. 4, 2026
“This is a new age of epics, you see,” said the sage-poet.
From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi
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