House Of The Dragon (Season 1)

House of the Dragon (2022)
Olivia Cooke and Emma D’Arcy in House of the Dragon (2022)

What Is It?

The 2022 HBO American fantasy drama TV show House Of The Dragon (Season 1).

House of the Dragon | Official Trailer | HBO Max

House of the Dragon | Official Teaser Trailer | HBO Max

Here is how HBO describes this TV show:

The reign of House Targaryen begins: House of the Dragon, the prequel to Game of Thrones, is here.

Based on George R.R. Martin’s “Fire & Blood,” the series, which is set 200 years before the events of Game of Thrones, tells the story of House Targaryen.

House of the Dragon stars Paddy Considine (HBO’s The Third Day and The Outsider), Matt Smith (Doctor Who), Olivia Cooke, Emma D’Arcy, Steve Toussaint (It’s a Sin, Doctor Who), Eve Best, Sonoya Mizuno, Fabien Frankel, and Rhys Ifans.

Additional cast members include Milly Alcock, Bethany Antonia, Phoebe Campbell, Emily Carey, Harry Collett, Ryan Corr, Tom Glynn-Carney, Jefferson Hall, David Horovitch, Wil Johnson, John Macmillan, Graham McTavish, Ewan Mitchell, Theo Nate, Matthew Needham, Bill Paterson, Phia Saban, Gavin Spokes, and Savannah Steyn.

See the cast and characters here.

Martin and Ryan Condal serve as co-creators on the series.

Miguel Sapochnik and Condal are showrunners, and the pair also serve as executive producers along with Martin, Sara Hess, Jocelyn Diaz, Vince Gerardis, and Ron Schmidt.

Clare Kilner and Geeta Vasant Patel also direct the series.

Greg Yaitanes is director and co-executive producer.

Game of Thrones and Westworld composer Ramin Djawadi scored the series.

Three Thousand Years Of Longing

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What Is It?

The 2022 fantasy movie, Three Thousand Years Of Longing.

THREE THOUSAND YEARS OF LONGING | Official Trailer | MGM Studios

Three Thousand Years of Longing Featurette – The Djinn and the Genius (2022)

This is how the IMDB describes this movie:

Dr Alithea Binnie (Tilda Swinton) is an academic – content with life and a creature of reason.

While in Istanbul attending a conference, she happens to encounter a Djinn (Idris Elba) who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom.

This presents two problems.

First, she doubts that he is real and second, because she is a scholar of story and mythology, she knows all the cautionary tales of wishes gone wrong.

The Djinn pleads his case by telling her fantastical stories of his past.

Eventually, she is beguiled and makes a wish that surprises them both.

This is how Wikipedia describes this movie:

Three Thousand Years of Longing is a 2022 fantasy film co-written and directed by George Miller.

An adaptation of the short story “The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye” by A. S. Byatt, the film stars Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton.

Three Thousand Years of Longing had its world premiere at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival on May 20, 2022, and is scheduled to be released in the United States on August 31, 2022, by United Artists Releasing.[4]

A scholar, content with life, encounters a Djinn who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom.

Their conversation, in a hotel room in Istanbul, leads to consequences neither would have expected.[5]

The Sandman (Season 1)

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What Is It?

The 2022 Netflix American fantasy drama TV show The Sandman (Season 1).

The Sandman | Official Trailer | Netflix

The Sandman | The World of The Endless | Netflix

Here is how The IMDb describes this TV show:

Upon escaping after decades of imprisonment by a mortal wizard, Dream, the personification of dreams, sets about to reclaim his lost equipment.

A wizard attempting to capture Death to bargain for eternal life traps her younger brother, Dream, instead. Fearful for his safety, the wizard kept him imprisoned in a glass bottle for decades. After his escape, Dream, also known as Morpheus, goes on a quest for his lost objects of power. — Neil Gaiman’s Official Site

This is how Wikipedia describes this TV show:

The Sandman is an American fantasy drama television series based on the comic book of the same name, written by Neil Gaiman and published by DC Comics. The series was developed by Gaiman, David S. Goyer, and Allan Heinberg for the streaming service Netflix, and is produced by DC Entertainment and Warner Bros. Television. Like the comic, The Sandman tells the story of Morpheus / Dream, the titular Sandman. The series stars Tom Sturridge as Morpheus, with Boyd Holbrook, Vivienne Acheampong, and Patton Oswalt in supporting roles.

Dream, the personification of dreams and one of the seven Endless, is captured in an occult ritual in 1916. After being held captive for 106 years, Dream escapes and sets out to restore order to his realm, The Dreaming.^[4]

The Fountain Review

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What Is It?

The 2006 American epic magical realism romantic drama movie The Fountain.

The Fountain

This is how The IMDb describes this movie:

As a modern-day scientist, Tommy is struggling with mortality, desperately searching for the medical breakthrough that will save the life of his cancer-stricken wife, Izzi.

Three stories – one each from the past, present, and future – about men in pursuit of eternity with their love. A conquistador in Mayan country searches for the tree of life to free his captive queen; a medical researcher, working with various trees, looks for a cure that will save his dying wife; a space traveler, traveling with an aged tree encapsulated within a bubble, moves toward a dying star that’s wrapped in a nebula; he seeks eternity with his love. The stories intersect and parallel; the quests fail and succeed. —jhailey@hotmail.com

The Fall (2006 Film)

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What Is It?

The 2006 adventure fantasy movie The Fall.

The Fall – Trailer

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Here is how The IMDb describes this movie:

In a hospital on the outskirts of 1920s Los Angeles, an injured stuntman begins to tell a fellow patient, a little girl with a broken arm, a fantastic story of five mythical heroes.

Thanks to his fractured state of mind and her vivid imagination, the line between fiction and reality blurs as the tale advances.