Richard Greene returns as Robin Hood in Sword of Sherwood Forest, bringing his television incarnation from The Adventures of Robin Hood to the big screen for Hammer Films. Directed by Terence Fisher, the film trades the television series’ half-hour adventures for a compact feature-length conspiracy involving crooked nobles, a threatened Archbishop and Peter Cushing looking…
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The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men (1952) – Review
Walt Disney’s The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men is what happens when a studio famous for singing animals decides to behave like a respectable purveyor of English folklore. The result is earnest, handsomely mounted, and just a little too polite for its own good. It’s Robin Hood scrubbed clean for family viewing,…
Douglas Fairbanks in Robin Hood (1922) – Review
1922’s Robin Hood – released as Douglas Fairbanks in Robin Hood – is one of those silent-era spectacles that makes you wonder if early Hollywood briefly lost its collective mind and decided to build an entire medieval city just for fun. Released at the absolute height of the silent swashbuckler craze, the film exists largely…
From Fairy Tale to Film: The Many Faces of Beauty and the Beast
Beauty and the Beast is one of those stories that refuses to fade quietly into the background. It lingers, reshapes itself, and reappears in new forms every few decades, as if daring each generation to try and improve on it. Cinema, naturally, has taken that challenge personally, producing a long line of adaptations that range…
Blood of Beasts (2005) – Review
This film was released under three different titles: Beauty and the Beast, Blood of Beasts, and Blood of Vikings. That’s either a bold marketing strategy or some kind of tax dodge. Whatever the intent, the end result feels less like a rebrand and more like a warning label that nobody read.