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…
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Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (2010) – Review
Horror-themed Christmas movies are certainly nothing new, but writer/director Jalmari Helander gives us a Christmas movie that is a horror-fantasy-dark comedy-boy’s adventure tale, and that, my friends, is a rare export indeed.
Ladyhawke (1985) – Review
The 1980s certainly were a great time to be a kid going to the theatre as fantasy movies lit up the screen like never before, with such great films as Dragonslayer, Conan the Barbarian and one of my favourites and today’s pick, Richard Donner’s Ladyhawke. It’s a film that feels like it wandered in from…
The Lad and the Lion: Edgar Rice Burroughs – Book Review
The Lad and the Lion is an interesting book as it not only tells the adventure stories of a young man with a lion but also a parallel story about a small European country struggling with revolution, but strangely neither story has much impact on the other. Written in 1914 and first appearing as a…
The Cave Girl: Edgar Rice Burroughs – Book Review
Men of great deeds and action who, with noble purposes at heart, let none stand in their way as their mighty physiques carve a path to victory; this best describes your standard Edgar Rice Burroughs protagonist and is what really sets The Cave Girl apart from most of Burroughs’s books as the hero of this…