A dragon with the ability to shift into human form investigates a mystery in Cude’s inventive urban fantasy debut. On the outside, Peter [21] Bentwhistle [36] might seem like a fairly ordinary English bloke. [28] He works at a mundane corporate job [34] and enjoys kicking back with a pint and playing hockey. [30] However, the truth of the matter is that he’s actually a dragon and, like all dragons in the world of this new...
1980s Fantasy Film Festival #10: “Brazil” (1985)
[Note: The following review contains SPOILERS for Time Bandits.] And now, we begin the next sequence of our 1980s Fantasy Film Festival All 1980s Fantasy Film Festival Posts Next Friday: The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988) Full Upcoming...
Faerie Tale Theatre 5.02: “The Princess Who Had Never Laughed”
Once upon a time, in a magical decade known as the Nineteen Eighties, a then-modest little cable network called Showtime decided to launch its very first original television series. Although today known best for programs about serial killers, drug-addicted caregivers, and criminal suburban mothers, this was a quainter, more distant era, all but lost to the mists of time, and thus it was pronounced throughout the land that this first...
Power in a Union: “Pride” (2014)
I usually only write about genre on this site, but every now and then, a work of art comes along that affects me so deeply, I can’t bring myself to ignore it here just because it doesn’t fit under a prescribed category. Such is the case with the recent British film, Pride, which I saw in a small indie cinema just over a week ago in New York, and which touched me so deeply and entertained me so much that I proceeded to see...
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones 3.07: “Hollywood Follies”
Currently, I’ve been rewatching and blogging on The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones, continuing last week with the twenty-first chapter, “Scandal of 1920”. Before proceeding with the next and final chapter, here are a few things you should know, if you haven’t read the earlier post: You might have noticed that I referred to this show as The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones instead of The Young Indiana Jones...