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'Doctor Who: The Doctor's Wife' —Clip

‘Doctor Who: The Doctor’s Wife’ —Clip

Here’s a clip from Saturday’s episode of DOCTOR WHO, The Doctor’s Wife, wherein The Doctor discovers He’s Got Mail.

'The Sandman' to Dream on TV?

‘The Sandman’ to Dream on TV?

Neil Gaiman’s comic books series The Sandman is in development as a TV series by Warner Brothers Televsion.

The Score: Bruno Coulais and the Musical Magic of Coraline

The Score: Bruno Coulais and the Musical Magic of Coraline

Bruno Coulais’ score for Henry Selick’s 3D-animated film, CORALINE,  is an enchanting enactment for orchestra and choir, which brings to wonderful life the magical environment and story concocted by the brilliant author Neil Gaiman. The music features a perfectly appropriate blending of unusual instruments (mechanical piano, electric bass guitar, jazzy flutes, what sounds like a child’s [...]

Coraline - Film Review

Coraline – Film Review

Whether you go through the looking  glass, down the rabbit hole, over the rainbow, or into the labyrinth, you are bound to encounter wonders beyond your imagination, sights and sounds that impress the senses and embed themselves upon the brain with all the enchantment of a beautiful dream, but somewhere in our minds we know [...]

CHANGING SAKÉ INTO WINE - Neil Gaiman on Adapting

CHANGING SAKÉ INTO WINE – Neil Gaiman on Adapting “Princess Mononke” for America

Over a decade afters its original release, Hayao Miyazaki’s PRINCESS MONONOKE remains a monumental achievement in animation, and enthralling adventure-fantasy whose traditional hand-drawn cells easily outclass much of the soulless computerized cartoons of today. Looking back, it is easy to see MONONOKE as part of a trend toward showing some respect for anime when releasing [...]

Stardust – Fantasy Film Review

This genre film is not very generic, which is to say it has a distinctive personality that sets it apart from run-of-the-mill fairy tale films. The personality happens to be British (despite the American stars), but that’s all to the better: the ghosts, witchcraft, flying pirates, and other fantastic imagery filling the film are treated [...]