Another film that answers questions we didn't ask, Oz the Great and Powerful is a prequel showing how the magical land over the rainbow got its formidable-but-all-too-fallible wizard.
The Toronto International Film Festival, the world's second largest film festival, starts this week. This is a festival with a long history of introducing films that go on to be major critical and box-office hits.
That's how Edward Gorey took out one unlucky girl in his macabre alphabet poem, "The Gashlycrumb Tinies." The alphabet is equally deadly in a new project being produced by Tim League and Ant Timpson, The ABCs of Death.