'His Dark Materials': A gorgeous, gentle introduction to a complex world

7:17am PST - November 4th, 2019    playing with fire - Mashable

HBO's His Dark Materials starts from the semi-enviable position of “At least it can’t be worse than the movie." The first attempt at adapting Philip Pullman’s cerebral, dense, beloved fantasy novels was The Golden Compass. The lush 2007 feature film, based on…