
S7E23 - Silver Screen Podcast - The Dark Crystal Review (80s Fantasy Season)
Published: May 7, 2026
Duration: 1:24:52
Episode 152 – "End, begin, all the same. Big change. Sometimes good. Sometimes bad."
Greetings, travellers… Our journey through the strange and spellbinding world of 1980s fantasy continues, and this time we venture to the distant planet of Thra—where the suns burn bright, the creatures are unlike anything you’ve ever seen, and balance itself hangs by a thread—in The Dark Crystal. Host Michael Wilson is joined by returning guests—filmmaker and raconteur Michael Whaley, and Lynn (back after Fiddler on the Roof)—to explore Jim Henson’s bold and deeply unusual fantasy epic: a film with no hum...