A darkness hangs over The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, Netflix's prequel to the wonderfully weird 1982 Jim Henson film. The original movie still ...

Big Bird a bad guy? Miss Piggy a murderer? Netflix's "The Dark Crystal" uses our love of TV muppets to lend its story of Skeksis and Gelflings a sinister flair.

When The Dark Crystal was released into theaters in 1982, it was a confusing piece of filmmaking. After all, this was a Jim Henson film that was a massive departure from the Muppets--the property ...

The Bird with the Crystal Plumage features all the typical giallo trimmings, complete with a red herring and ample attempts at misdirection to keep the audience in the dark.The film also expertly ...

But the “Dark Crystal” monsters are also Muppets. (They are not, legally, Muppets, with a capital M, for that brand has been locked since 2004 in Disney’s unassailable Tower of Intellectual ...

TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. In 1982, Jim Henson produced and directed "The Dark Crystal," a movie that was a big departure from his work with his lovable Muppets.

Screenings of "The Dark Crystal" and "Labyrinth" bookend the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts' "Muppets, Music and Magic: Jim Henson's Legacy" retrospective, which continues this week.

Netflix is making a TV adaptation of The Dark Crystal - yes, the muppet movie with the scary bird people. News. By Sam Prell published 19 May 2017 When you purchase through links on our site, ...

The Dark Crystal / Labyrinth. By Tasha Robinson ... The story involves a world where an evil race of sybaritic bird-monsters called Skekis rule over a magical purple crystal in a decaying castle.

Netflix. The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance stunned fans who had grown up with the classic Jim Henson film as it expanded on the world of the Gelfling and the Skeksis, setting up the great war ...

In the 37 years since Jim Henson's iconic “The Dark Crystal” debuted, it's become a touchstone for fantasy film fans. Now, a new series is is taking us back to the world of Thra. Debuting on ...