I’ve been fan of Neil Gaiman since his Black Orchid miniseries, and I’ve been following his career happily since than from Sandman, to Neverwhere, the novels to whatever project is in the works be it a Doctor Who script or[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Posts Tagged Fantasy
I finally got around to seeing Man of Steel, after listening to my friends either love or hate it – but be too polite to actually tell me any spoilers. I’d been looking forward to it; the trailers looked promising,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well I’m excited. I mean… of course I’m excited. This is the second half of the third book A Storm of Swords and I look forward to seeing what they are going to do with it. It’s interesting normally I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For this week’s selection I went with two American fantasies. Tall Tale and The Beasts of the Southern Wild. Tall Tail is a heavy handed attempt at a swan song for an idealized myth of America from the point of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well now that we’ve gotten past the long awaited Purple Wedding we have a nice slower episode that moves more pieces into place and providing more examples of how the show is wonderfully different from the book. The most noticeable[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This was certainly one of the more interesting episodes this season. Not do to cool things that happened not due to complex plot points that will have to be remembered for the rest of the season to see what they[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
While I certainly enjoyed the first Hobbit movie it was one of those movies I never had an overwhelming need to go see it again and again the way I did with the Lord of the Rings films. This carried[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well I first heard of A Letter to Momo less than a week ago when a couple of my friends were raving about it and making it clear that it would only been at the Varsity for the rest of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
To keep with the holiday season I decided to start viewing some dark fantasy films (my threshold for horror is mixxed at best. I prefer the subtler supernatural over the raw terror of a slasher film so a lot of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…