It’s common knowledge that Cannon films are done on the cheap. As a result, most of their output is of a less-than-notable quality — they basically killed the Superman franchise with their installment — but with Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, we get a film that brilliantly…
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The Black Knight (1954) – Review
“There comes a time in every man’s life when he must fight for what he wants most,” and with those stirring words the adventures of The Black Knight begin, a film that wonderfully illustrates the dream of Camelot and the heroic ideal. Unfortunately, aside from namechecking the likes of King Arthur and Guinevere, there isn’t…
At the Earth’s Core: Book vs Movie
If ever there was to be a king of lost cities or lost civilizations that king would be Edgar Rice Burroughs; Tarzan couldn’t swing fifteen feet through the jungles of Africa without running into some ancient lost city or another, and of course there is The Land That Time Forgot where dinosaurs still roam the…