On Movies & Media For the love of Labyrinth On September 11 and 14, Fathom Events is bringing Jim Henson's 1986 fantasy extravaganza — Labyrinth — back to theaters for two days of big screen bedazzlement. David Bowie will rise again as the Goblin King, tempting and tormenting poor Sarah by stealing her baby brother away into his lair
On Movies & Media Happy Birthday, Jim Henson! In celebration of the birthday of the late, great Jim Henson, Comment Magazine has posted a letter I wrote to Jim Henson's ghost...
On Movies & Media MirrorMask (2005): Or, "Neil Gaiman's Girls, Part Two" MirrorMask, the Jim Henson Company's most wildly imaginative post-Henson release, remains fairly obscure. And that's a shame, because it is a big-screen spectacle par excellence.
On Movies & Media In Memory of Jim Henson. In memory of my hero, Jim Henson, who died 21 years ago today. He changed the world with a sock puppet, a dream, hard work, and kindness.
On Movies & Media What I See When I Walk Into My Study My writing room at home is very small. And cluttered. But I don't look at the mess when I walk in the door. I look at the poster that is staring back at me on the vaulted ceiling, staring me right in the face. This man changed my
On Movies & Media Fizzgig returns! Award-winning animation director Genndy Tartakovsky, the man who made Samurai Jack and those impressive Clone Wars cartoons, has just made my day. He's directing the sequel to the greatest puppet-animation film ever made... ...and here's the scoop! The script for The Dark Crystal needed a lot
On Movies & Media A Sequel to "The Dark Crystal"?? Apparently so!! I would rejoice over this... I would dance with glee... ...if only they would tell me that the Henson studio wants to accomplish this in the same way that they accomplished the original... without digital animation. What makes The Dark Crystal stand out as unique is its handmade
