Sword-and-sorcery had been kicking around for years, but 1982’s Conan the Barbarian sparked a full-blown boom, unleashing a wave of bargain-bin imitators like Deathstalker and The Beastmaster. By the late ’90s, the trend was long dead, yet Universal took another swing despite the lukewarm Conan the Destroyer and the flop Red Sonja, once again calling…
Category: Reviews
The Fires of Heaven: Robert Jordan – Book Review
It is time to make your way in a bleak new world.
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…
Man of Steel XXX (2013) – Review
It’s not what you were expecting, I promise!