Welcome Ithaca, Farewell Greece: On Christopher Nolan’s Odysseus – Can we, then, have a cinematic adaptation of the Odyssey today without it being a fantasy or action movie? It would seem that this is a very difficult undertaking. –> https://bluelabyrinths.com/2026/08/12/welcome-ithaca-farewell-gre...

Anna Ortiz Traverses the Multiple Realities of the Borderlands – In Mesoamerican folklore, the jaguar is a prominent nagual, a being with the power to morph into an animal. Moving from one realm into another allows this hybrid creature to act as a spiritual guide through unknown territories. For Anna Ortiz, the jaguar is also a fitting metaphor for entering into a mythic borderland. –> https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/09/anna-ortiz-shapeshifter-pa...

Did Marvel Produce Conan Comics That Only Appeared in ITALY? –> https://www.cbr.com/conan-comics-marvel-italy-only/

Artist Directory: Kate Balfe –> https://beautifulbizarre.net/artist-directory-kate-balfe/

The End of Oak Street: gripping dino survival film feels Spielbergian but plays against expectations – When their suburban neighbourhood is transported from 1982 to a prehistoric jungle, Denise (Anne Hathaway) and Greg (Ewan McGregor) must set aside their differences to protect their children from deadly dinosaurs in David Robert Mitchell’s tense and trope-breaking sci-fi romp. – Written and directed by David Robert Mitchell, of It Follows (2014) and Under the Silver Lake (2018), and produced by J.J. Abrams, whose reverence for the Spielberg-dominated fantasies of the 1980s has been well in evidence, the film has something of the feel of Spielberg’s collaboration with horror master Tobe Hooper on Poltergeist (1982) –> https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/reviews/end-oak-street-gri...

Spiraling Geometries Inspire a Sculptural Observatory Planned for Saudi Arabia’s Alula Desert –> https://mymodernmet.com/heatherwick-studio-alula-manara-observato...