The writer and director of the maligned 2007 Golden Compass movie knows exactly what went wrong with that adaptation. You should know it’s not his fault, and that things are looking much brighter for ...

The Golden Compass owes a lot to 2005’s The Chronicles of Narnia. Like Narnia, it is a game based on a film based on a fantasy novel, and it even goes so far as to summarily lift hunks of gameplay ...

HBO's His Dark Materials is the much-anticipated adaptation of Philip Pullman's trilogy of fantasy novels by the same name. So why are people talking about something called The Golden Compass? Are ...

At first glance, HBO’s His Dark Materials is an adaptation of Phillip Pullman’s The Golden Compass. After all, we’re following young Lyra Belacqua (Dafne Keen) and her daemon Pantalaimon ask they ...

I suggest you also watch the previous Golden Compass teaser trailer from May as well. After watching the new trailer below, I'm very excited and definitely looking forward to it. I know it's going to ...

It is a strange feeling walking into a fantasy film like this and not knowing what to expect. I have read all of the Harry Potter, Chronicles of Narnia and Lord of the Rings books so I had some idea ...

This winter’s presumed megahit fantasy film The Golden Compass is an adaptation of the first book of Philip Pullman’s wildly popular His Dark Materials series, which has always sort of surprised us in ...

New Line Cinema, Bad Wolf and the BBC will partner to bring Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials series to the small screen. His Dark Materials is a young adult fantasy trilogy — perhaps better known ...

Ian McKellen always had it in him: a polar bear snarling to get out. We always knew that given the chance, he would rear on his hind legs, flash his teeth, unleash a hideous roar and bear-slap his ...

Another holiday movie season, another fantastic mythological universe to contend with. This time, it's the world -- or multiple parallel worlds -- of Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" trilogy, the ...

Big, noisy, and fantastic yet curiously sodden, too, filled with talking animals, sparkly light showers, and vague hints of ”religious” feeling that are never more than distant echoes, The Golden ...