Tuesday, May 10 2011
Selling Sex: The Media, Fantasy, and How I Fell in Love with Britney Spears
It all started when I was in Walgreens buying deodorant and I saw her looking me right in the eye with a glossy glow from the cover of an October 2010 issue of US Weekly.
Wednesday, April 13 2011
It required big thinking to re-create George R.R. Martin’s ‘Game of Thrones’ for HBO
Thursday, July 15 2010
The Magicians: Forget Kansas—We’re Not Even in Narnia, Anymore
Lev Grossman has created a fantasy epic that calls into question fantasy epics, revealing the secret poisons hiding in Narnia and Hogwarts.
Friday, July 9 2010
‘Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief’ Needs a Bit More Voltage
This is a rare case of a film that could have used another 15-minutes to build its characters and emotional relationships.
Thursday, April 8 2010
The Neverending Story
This '80s fantasy classic gets the Blu-ray treatment. This is a wise decision, given that most of the film's attributes are of the visual sort.
Thursday, December 17 2009
Blue World: James Cameron’s ‘Avatar’
Cameron's evocations of everything from Blackwater's Iraq massacres to the Trail of Tears gives his story an uncommon resonance. This is a whole new kind of science fiction filmmaking, something particularly grandly spectacular, even if occasionally daft and overblown.
Tuesday, October 6 2009
Sanctuary: The Complete First Season
The modern-day stories mirror our society's uncaring treatment of outsider groups without being too blatant.
