Pee-Wee Herman searches for his stolen bike in Tim Burton’s 1985 comedy classic Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure, now on a new Criterion 4k UHD.
Tag Archives: Fantasy
Good Fortune (2025)
A simple celestial assignment quickly unravels into a chaotic, heartfelt exploration of class, identity, and the limits of divine intervention.
Wicked: For Good [2025]
Elphaba, “The Wicked Witch of the West”, is hunted by various forces, including The Wizard of Oz and her BFF Glinda the Good, in John M. Chu’s Wicked: For Good, the lesser second half of the Broadway adaptation.
The Wiz (1978) [Most Influential Black Films]
A simple act of retrieving a dog running out into a storm becomes a radiant journey through self-discovery, courage, and community.
Malpertuis [1971] [Radiance Films] [Halloween Horror Month]
A young man enters a strange and unknowable labyrinth of madness in his uncle’s house in Harry Kumel’s Malpertuis, now out in a gorgeous special edition from Radiance Films.
Out of the Nest (2024)
When an ambitious barber’s dreams of working for the prince are about to come to fruition, the royal family’s seven eggs are stolen, and his worth to the kingdom will go far beyond his ability to style their hair.
Frankenstein [2025] [Halloween Horror Month]
Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein finds a true soul among exquisite gothic grotesqueries in the iconic story of a reanimated corpse.