The best fantasy movies on Netflix for a great escape – GQ UK

Make no mistake: He might be particularly popular right now, with Harry Styles, Taylor Swift and Shaun Mendes all cutting their teeth in Hollywood, but pop musicians’ transition to the big screen isn’t a new phenomenon. Take the iconoclastic androgynous David Bowie, the one who fell from the sky and took British culture by the nads: he starred in Labyrinth, puppeteer Jim Henson’s fantastic collaboration with Monty Python’s Terry Jones, in 1986, when Cher was also doing business on the big screen. (And they weren’t the first, see: Elvis, Bing Crosby, Olivia Newton-John, the list is endless.) Although a bit of a box office miss, the idiosyncratic image is widely appreciated in retrospect, especially for Bowie’s lead role. like the goblin king. netflix.com