Labyrinth

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  • Title: Labyrinth
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Following the success of The Dark Crystal, Jim Henson turned his attention to bringing another dark fantasy to the big screen. Brian Froud, who provided the conceptual designs for the previous film was tasked with creating creatures for a new world within a labyrinth. And Monty Python’s Terry Jones signed on to write the screenplay based on a story from Henson and Dennis Lee heavily influenced by The Wizard of Oz, Alice in Wonderland, and Maurice Sendak‘s Outside Over There. The film is so closely related to the latter, it nearly prevented Labyrinth‘s release until legal complaints were settled.

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Cheetahs Up Close with Bertie Gregory

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  • Title: Cheetahs Up Close with Bertie Gregory
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Cheetahs Up Close with Bertie Gregory takes wildlife filmmaker and documentarian Bertie Gregory to the Serengeti where he focuses on two groups of cheetahs to highlight the struggles of the fastest land animal which finds itself stuck in the middle of the food chain. Bertie and his team spend time with both a mother and her two young cubs, noting that 95% of cheetahs don’t make it to adulthood, and a pack of three young males all struggling to survive.

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Hellboy and the B.P.R.D. – The Ghost Ships of Labrador

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The two-issue story set in 1990 takes Hellboy and Abe to a small coastal town where a recent infestation of ghosts from the sea has taken over the area and also captured a young B.P.R.D. exorcist sent in earlier to determine the scope of the situation who disappeared within the dense mist. The twist of the story comes in the revelation of why the ghosts invaded the town, not to steal it for themselves but an attempt to hide from an even larger threat pursuing them across the seas.

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The Dutchman

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  • Title: The Dutchman
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An adaptation of the 1964 play (which was inspired by the myth of The Flying Dutchman), director Andre Gaines‘ The Dutchman is social commentary wrapped up in a messy metaphysical metaphor that, while it has something to say on both the subject of being a successful Black man in America and on marital infidelity and temptation, is far more opaque than it should be except, perhaps, in Clay’s long monologues that are meant to offer cultural critique to the audience more than the film’s antagonist.

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