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Hollywood and big media’s love affair with fantasy films/TV and their untimely decline (video).
Author Chris Fix slips in to give us his take on Hollywood and big media’s love affair with fantasy films/TV, and the genre’s…
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The Ningyo (short fantasy/steampunk film: in full).
Here’s a short fantasy/steampunk film from Miguel Ortega and Tran Ma, The Ningyo, that came from Kickstarter roots. It’s set in 1909, and…
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The Rock of Ages (short fantasy movie: in full).
Here’s a short fantasy movie The Rock of Ages, from Eron Sheean. A lost soldier comes across a crafty talking rock while running…
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JK Simmons: Super-santa? (film news)
Hey there, Santa enthusiasts! If you thought Old Saint Nick was just a jolly old man who loves cookies and milk, think again.…
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Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (film review by Mark R. leeper).
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio: This is called “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio” to distinguish it from the *other* 2022 Pinocchio film, Pinocchio, which is…
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‘Wendell & Wild’: a Netflix film review by Mark R. Leeper.
‘Wendell & Wild’ is the second of three stop-motion films from Netflix this year. The other two being ‘The House’ (reviewed in the…
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Red Sonja: the greatest fantasy barbarian, like, ever? (comic-book retrospective)
Ed and Jim sit down to examine Red Sonja, that fair sword-wielding warrior from the Hyrkanian Age, a time predating recorded history. She…
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City of Last Chances by Adrian Tchaikovsky (fantasy book review: video format).
The Library of Allenxandria (hah, we saw what you did there) brings us his review of the new fantasy novel from Adrian Tchaikovsky,…
November 2022
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Rings of Power: Amazon Prime’s Tolkien, how good, how bad? Brandon Sanderson’s take (video).
Fantasy author Brandon Sanderson knows a thing or two about sorcery, orcs, and proto-halflings. Well, perhaps not the Traveller Hobbits, but for everything…
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An exhaustive analysis of the philosophical underpinnings of The Lord of the Rings (documentary: video).
An in-depth investigation into the hidden meanings and philosophical underpinnings of Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and Peter Jackson’s film adaptation of…
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Willow, fantasy TV series – meet the Bone Reavers (clip).
In a scene from the upcoming Disney+ fantasy TV series Willow premiere, Willow Ufgood and a band of unexpected teenage heroes are pursued…
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Here’s an interview with John Howe, the man behind the illustrations and concepts for Rings of Power (audio format).
This afternoon, John Howe sat down with Luke Shelton (co-host of The Tolkien Experience Podcast) and Jeremy Edmonds (TolkienGuide) for a live interview…