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Star Wars, Our 20th Century Myth

July 21st, 2008 · 17 Comments

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 [...]

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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”; [...]

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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 [...]

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Tags: Pan's Labyrinth · Spanish civil war · adult fairy tale · fantasy · film · movie review · movies · review