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Labyrinth: How Did Jareth Become the Goblin King? His Comic Book Origin Story Explains

Warning: contains spoilers for the Labyrinth: Coronation Comics. Maybe yours is the kind of mind that’s never worried about why in the 1986 film Labyrinth, Goblin King Jareth – ostensibly a human man, albeit one who can turn into an owl – rules a species with which he shares zero physical characteristics. If so, then go in peace, friend, and enjoy life. You likely already are. If, however, yours is the sort of mind that regularly lets you leave home in slippers because it’s busy wondering how they get the horses to the Olympics, then step this way. The Labyrinth mystery has been…
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The Alienist: Angel of Darkness Episode 3 Review: Labyrinth

This THE ALIENIST review contains spoilers. The Alienist Season 2 Episode 3 Rarely does a crime show build to a satisfying reveal if the series settles in on its first suspect, then reveals that suspect to be the killer. That’s why despite the circumstantial evidence pointing at the matron, Dr. Markoe’s right hand woman at the Lying In Hospital, it seems almost too obvious that she’s the culprit. However, the episode certainly wants you to think that the barren, slightly crazy-eyed matron has kidnapped the Linares baby, with a lot of “Labyrinth” dedicated to investigation and plot. However, the final…
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Labyrinth Sequel in the Works, Doctor Strange’s Scott Derrickson to Direct

Jim Henson’s 1986 classic fantasy film, Labyrinth, has achieved something that its initial box office performance would never in a million years justify: a sequel. TriStar Pictures is set to take moviegoers back to the world of fairies, goblins and baby-napping glam-rockers who put on random musical numbers within the confines of enormously ominous oubliettes, with a sequel to Labyrinth now officially in the works, according to Deadline. Additionally, the studio has already found a creative team to tackle the project, tapping a director who’s put in work exploring appropriately labyrinthine fantastical worlds in Doctor Strange director Scott Derrickson. He’ll…
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Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles

Paris, 1930. The infamous surrealist filmmaker Luis Buouel is left penniless after the scandalous release of L'Age d'Or leads to a falling out with collaborator Salvador Dali. On a whim, Buouel's good friend, sculptor Ramon Acin, buys a lottery ticket and promises to devote his winnings to fund Buouel's next film. Incredibly, Ramon wins the jackpot, sending the two friends to the remote mountains of their native Spain to film the documentary Las Hurdes: Land Without Bread. Driven by mad artistic impulse and haunted by childhood memories, Buouel must confront the specter of mortality looming over the lives of his…
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