A woman who went in search of Star Wars figures at her local thrift store was left gobsmacked after unearthing a unique piece ...

A woman who walked into a charity shop couldn't believe her luck after unearthing some items that could be worth a fortune - ...

A bargain hunter has been urged to insure her finds after stumbling upon two incredible pieces of 1980s Hollywood movie ...

Advisors for the intensive include Alissa Nutting (Teenage Euthanasia), Bruce Evans (25 Stories), Desta Tedros Reff (A League of Their Own), Javier Grillo-Marxauch (The Dark Crystal: Age of ...

Stephen Shugerman/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty Images The same year that Froud was hired to sculpt The Dark Crystal’s puppet leads, Kira and Jen, she was loaned out to Frank Oz’s puppeteer ...

Jen and Kira, the protagonists of The Dark Crystal, were her first creations for Jim Henson ... but also as adults. That’s why puppets are returning to film. All that new technology isn’t believable,” ...

Four decades ago The Dark Crystal seemed precisely that: an impossibility. A phantasmagorical puppet project on a scale ... which a young Gelfling named Jen – and Kira, whom he meets along ...

Kira isn’t much better ... where live actors interacted with puppets, The Dark Crystal is an all-puppet film. And these puppets aren’t cartoonish — the goal was to make them as lifelike ...

See Senior Director of TV Programming Meredith Speight’s recommendations from this month’s KQED 9, PLUS and Passport schedules. Videos from KQED Live Watch recordings of recent KQED Live events. Donor ...