For our April 2026 episode of Starship Alexandria – and the second in our new season – Adrian puts forward the film: Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves directed by Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley.

Other talking points:

Wonderful Hugh Grant

Rubbish sorcerers

A certain ambivalence

Dungeons we have Dragonned

Save the cat!

Everything wrong with Hollywood

Remembering the Forgotten Realms

The "It's him!" moment of failed fan service

Media Mentions:

Dungeons and Dragons movie dir. Courtney Solomon

Middle Earth Role-Playing (MERP) TTRPG

Dungeons and Dragons TTRPG

Conan the Barbarian, movie dir. John Milius

Lord of the Rings series of movies dir. Peter Jackson

Heretic, movie dir. Scott Beck and Bryan Woods

Bridget Jones's Diary movie dir. Sharon Maguire

Dungeons and Dragons, TV series

28 Years Later, movie dir. Danny Boyle

Galaxy Quest movie dir. Dean Parisot

Next month we look at the illustrated book Tales from Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan

Adrian's music recommendation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tEfYvY3bAg&list=RD5tEfYvY3bAg&start_radio=1

Emma's latest writing is included in Creative Futures (Beyond and Within) https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/creative-futures-allen-stroud/7847161 which was recently shortlisted for a BSFA Award

Adrian's most recent book: Children of Strife https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/children-of-strife-adrian-tchaikovsky/7864905

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