The Scooby gang has encountered all sorts of foes over the years, from men in masks posing as monsters to honest to goodness zombies and witches, but in The Sword and the Scoob, our heroes may be facing a magical menace that even their crime-solving skills can’t solve. Given the Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s…
Tag: Excalibur
Excalibur (1981) – Review
There have been many movies depicting the legend of King Arthur over the years with varying degrees of success; from Disney’s animated classic The Sword and the Stone to being wonderfully lampooned in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and Guy Ritchie even attempted an Arthurian franchise with King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, but…
The Sword in the Stone (1963) – Review
Disney’s The Sword in the Stone was an animated retelling of the classic Arthurian tale. Sadly, it focuses solely on the period between Uther Pendragon’s death and young Arthur pulling the sword out of the stone, which is not intrinsically a bad idea, but the fun and fascinating stuff really doesn’t kick in until Arthur…
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2016) – Review
If you were to look up the word “Hubris” in the dictionary one should not be surprised to find the definition altered to now describe it as, “A quality of extreme or foolish pride or dangerous overconfidence i.e. Warner Brothers and King Arthur: Legend of the Sword.”
The Last Legion (2007) – Review
The Last Legion follows in the footsteps of Antoine Fuqua’s King Arthur in that it gives us Roman origins for the Arthurian stories, and sure there are historians who believe that Arthur may have been a Roman soldier, and who knows they might be right, but I for one would rather see the end of…