The greatest trick ever pulled in childrens' literature was by Lewis Carroll, who somehow managed to write (in Alice) a story that is fundamentally disturbing and obeys none of the traditional rules ...

"'Tideland' is a weird movie," the movie store clerk told me as I checked out. "It sounds like 'Pan's Labyrinth,'" I said. "Is it?" "No," he said, "it's nothing like that at all. It's weird." I ...

In the solitude, Jeliza gradually begins to lose her grip on reality. She has conversations with her four decapitated Barbie doll heads and increasingly retreats into her own vivid fantasy world.

Eight-year-old Jeliza-Rose leads a tough life, with both parents being addicts. When her mother dies of an overdose, the remaining family moves into her grandmother's abandoned country house in the ...

Terry Gilliam is no stranger to dark slices of fantasy; his entire career has been built on it, from his days as a Pythonite onwards. But Gilliam outdoes The Fisher King, Twelve Monkeys, The Brothers ...