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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 ...

The Golden Compass is a 2007 fantasy adventure film written and directed by Chris Weitz that is based on Philip Pullman's 1995 novel Northern Lights. The plot follows Lyra, who joins a tribe of ...

In a world parallel to our own, there exists an orphan girl named Lyra who is destined to alter the course of the universe. Her realm, as well as ours, are just two of many that exist within ...