The Crystal Ball (Fantasy Listings for the Week Ahead)

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The Crystal Ball (Fantasy Listings for the Week Ahead)

Posted on 31 May 2000 by Brent Hartinger, Editor

In this regular TheTorchOnline.com feature, we gaze deep into a mystical crystal ball to predict the future! Or at least we run down the fantasy-themed entertainment offerings for the week ahead:

TELEVISION

In the season finale of Deadliest Warriors (which matches famous warriors from history and uses science to determine who would win), it’s terrorist versus terrorist as a member of the Taliban confronts a member of the I.R.A (Spike TV, Tuesday, 10 PM).

The Listener, a new show about a man who can hear people’s thoughts, debuts on Thursday at 10 PM (NBC). Check back this Wednesday for our review.

And once again, the Sci Fi Channel (which claims to feature “sci fi and fantasy”) gives us no fantasy except for all-day Land of the Lost marathons of the original Saturday morning show on Thursday and Friday.

AT THE MOVIES

Unless you yourself have been living in A Land That Time Forgot, you know that Land of the Lost opens on Friday. I’ll give it a chance, but I still say it looks terrible. (Since my expectations are so appallingly low, maybe I’ll be pleasantly surprised.)

OUT ON DVD

Fantasy-esque offerings out on DVD this week include an expanded edition of Sin City (in Blu-Ray) and the French documentary The Fox & the Child (Le Renard et l’enfant), which is described as a “fairy tale” about a girl and her friendship with a fox (it’s from the creators of March of the Penguins).

The trailer for The Fox & the Child