Big Worlds On Small Screens & ” Fantasy Films From the Eighties That Weren’t That Bad”—Rebecca Fisher Discusses “The Neverending Story″

~ by Rebecca Fisher

Some films are not just films but formative experiences. With the long-awaited Star Wars: The Force Awakens finally released to cinemas and the swell of nostalgia it left in its wake, it seems only right that my first entry in this sub-series,Fantasy Films From the Eighties That Weren’t That Bad, should be a movie that made up a considerable part of my childhood.

The Neverending Story is based on the 1979 novel by Michael Ende, originally written in German and translated...