Over twenty-five years after the first Star Wars motion picture blasted its way through our movie screens, the saga continues to live strongly in literature and cinema. To date, six films and three animated series for television were made, with a live-action series and a 3D CGI animated series in pre-production as well as a [...]
Entries Tagged as 'fantasy'
Star Wars, Our 20th Century Myth
July 21st, 2008 · 17 Comments
Tags: Star Wars · book review · books · fantasy · film review · motion pictures · myth · science fiction
The Golden Compass
September 9th, 2007 · 5 Comments
In anticipation of the movie, “The Golden Compass” which will be showing in theatres this December ( can’t wait!), I dusted off my old critique of the three books that make up Philip Pullman’s incredible “His Dark Materials” Trilogy, of which “The Golden Compass” is just the first. The three books include: “The Golden Compass”; [...]
Tags: His Dark Materials · New York Times Bestseller · Philip Pullman · book review · books · fantasy · movies · science fiction · the Golden Compass
Pan’s Labyrinth: Innocence has a Power Evil Cannot Resist
June 1st, 2007 · 13 Comments
Do you believe in the collective conscious? How about coincidence? What about fate? I find so often that events, occurences, observations happen around me as though out of design, as if they are connected like the gossamer web of a spider. For instance, when I’m doing research for a book on a particular subject, certain [...]
Tags: Pan's Labyrinth · Spanish civil war · adult fairy tale · fantasy · film · movie review · movies · review
