I`m a great fan of the tv-fantasy shows of my childhood. I grew up in the UK watching such now-forgotten gems as "The Moon Stallion" set in the Wiltshire countryside near the famous pre-hsitoric chalk-hill figure "The Uffington Horse".Set in Edwardian times it bound together such concepts as destiny, inherited memory, myth, the relationship of the ( Read more... )

Surprisinginly, noone I talk to knows of the movie Plan Nine from Outer Space, despite the Ed Wood movie coming out with Johnny Depp.

It's about aliens who plan to bring the dead to life and take over the world with it.

It's very cult, and amazingly campy.  But the best about it, is it is hilarious despite it's attempt to be serious.  :)

It's ( Read more... )

It was a TV show on NBC that aired for about 3 episodes, it had french stewart, james garner and allen cumming in it ( Read more... )

I am a huge fan of fairy tales. No, not the Disney-fied ones, the older, creepier ones, where happy endings are few and far between and bad things happen to bad people. As such, I am -also- a fan of assorted fairy tale retellings. So I figured I'd tell you about a couple of them, especially as one of them has the next book in the series coming out ( Read more... )

I'm rather new to this community, so let me know if I'm doing anything wrong ( Read more... )

Okay, just found this comm and looked through all the posts, so here's some "obscure" stuff I love. I do hope that some of you will know what the heck I'm talking about. *grin*

Princess Knight: Japanese animated series from the late 60s. I used to watch this when I was very young--about 5--and I have very fond memories of it to this day. About a ( Read more... )