The first time I started Slovak director Stefan Uher’s The Miraculous Virgin (Panna Zázracnica, 1966), it didn’t end. I started the film over before it was finished, but it was the right call because the second time I decided to ...

Not every spy can be James Bond but then Gerald Arthur Otley (Tom Courtenay) never meant to be a spy in the first place. When he’s not being pulled into matters of classified intelligence, Otley is a man absorbed with ...

Maybe being granted three wishes was never a straightforward process, but there must have been a time when they were something to hope for, because despite all the horror stories of wishes gone bad, the idea that they can help ...

Following the success of his adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ The Land That Time Forgot (1974), At The Earth’s Core (1976) was the second of three films Kevin Connor directed adapting Burroughs’ works for Amicus Productions. The third, The People ...

I used to think once you knew one killer Santa, you knew them all. Not after reading Spectacular Optical’s Yuletide Terror. A book churning with more killer Santas than you’d ever want to meet in a lifetime (assuming you survived ...

At the end of the short film, “Birdboy” (2011), Dinki asks the title character to fly her away. In the follow-up film, Psychonauts, The Forgotten Children (Psiconautas, Los Niños Olvidados, 2015), Dinki is looking for ways off the island herself, ...

It’s a lot easier to get what you want when you don’t question the circumstances that made everything come together. Jim has always been someone who’s put weight in his misgivings. When a relationship doesn’t feel right, he’s ready to ...

When you’re about to be evicted and a treasure map falls in your lap, you know it’s time to change your plans and go on an adventure. This is what happens to Henry (Lucas Zumann) and his big sister, Joy, ...

Everyone has that classic they never got around to reading, but if I don’t mention how many years a Barnes and Noble leather-bound edition of Jane Eyre has been sitting on my book shelf, it’s probably because it’s not my ...

There’s more than enough room for human-dog partnerships across Jim Henson’s oeuvre, but it’s true. For a while there I was convinced the narrators of Jim Henson’s The Storyteller: Giants were Fraggle Rock’s Doc and Sprocket. Doc wore glasses and ...