Hollywood loves a good swashbuckler and if it’s not Errol Flynn as Captain Blood duelling a nefarious Basil Rathbone, then it’s Errol Flynn as Robin Hood duelling a nefarious Basil Rathbone — Hollywood is fond of sticking with what works — but no greater font of swordplay and action can be found than within the…
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Kull the Conqueror (1997) – Review
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…
The Mad King: Edgar Rice Burroughs – Book Review
The Mad King is easily one of my favorite Burroughs books because it so gleefully ripped-off the premise of one of my favorite stories The Prisoner of Zenda