epic
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On my last trip abroad, I took eight books for a three-week holiday, ranging from Frank Herbert's sci-fi epic Dune to James Ellroy's noir throwback The Black Dahlia.
From BBC â Jul. 31, 2026
Things went awry with the multiverse-exploiting fan-service epic “No Way Home” in 2021.
From The Wall Street Journal â Jul. 30, 2026
Prince-Bythewood admitted that she wasn’t emotionally ready to hop on board and that she didn’t know how to make an epic fantasy film yet.
From Los Angeles Times â Jul. 29, 2026
The Peloponnese was the heartland of the Bronze Age civilisation in Homer's epic.
From Barron's â Jul. 28, 2026
And yeah, maybe she had made an epic mistake, but that didn’t make her any less epic.
From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi
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
Damon has explained the decline of mid-sized movies and outsized epics in other venues.
From Salon â Jul. 12, 2026
That movie appeared 20 years ago, longer than the gap between the second and third Godfather epics.
From The Wall Street Journal â Apr. 29, 2026
The network had long built its identity on adult prestige — crime sagas, antiheroes and sprawling family epics — not stories centered on high schoolers.
From Los Angeles Times â Apr. 9, 2026
The novelist would later win the Nobel Prize, but he was already famous for his classic Southern epics like The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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