Sword & Sorcery movies have been around for quite some time, but 1982’s Conan the Barbarian with Arnold Schwarzenegger caused a boom in the genre and then we were then bombarded with tons of low-budget exploitation films like Deathstalker and Beastmaster.
Author: Mike Brooks
The Deputy Sheriff of Comanche County: Edgar Rice Burroughs – Book Review
Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote only four westerns and The Deputy Sheriff of Comanche County was the last of them. It was published in the pages of Thrilling Adventures magazine and illustrated by his son John Coleman Burroughs. What makes this book stand out from many other westerns is that not only was it a good…
Fifty Shades of Grey (2015) – Review
When a book sells over a hundred million copies there is a good chance that it will be made into a movie, doesn’t matter if the book is good or not it’s just a matter of numbers, and that author E.L. James’s novel is based on Twilight fan fiction does not lend one hope in its…
R100 (2013) – Review
No culture is without sexual acts and fetishes that some others would consider strange if not completely bizarre or perverse but for me, the most fascinating country in this area is Japan because of the dichotomy between their strict censorship laws and some of the bat shit crazy stuff they do.
The Image (1975) – Review
When it comes to bondage and erotica in film French director Just Jaeckin’s adaptation of author Anne Cécile Desclosthe The Story of O pretty much set the bar for which all movies with this subject matter would be measured by, while over in America director Radley Metzger took note of this, seeing what Jaeckin had…