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Conan The Destroyer: Celebrating Arnold Schwarzenegger’s birthday with his PG-rated barbarian

Posted 3 years ago

Conan the Destroyer is the PG-rated sequel to Conan the Barbarian, and Arnold Schwarzenegger fans typically hate it. Is it that bad?

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Something Wicked This Way Comes: Revisiting a Dark Disney Classic

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In the eighties, Walt Disney Productions made a deliciously dark fable, Something Wicked This Way Comes, which we revisit here.

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The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982): Albert Pyun’s Fantasy Classic Revisited

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Chris Albert Pyun’s 1982 fantasy adventure The Sword and the Sorcerer may not be the most fondly remembered epic of its era, but it was wildly successful. In the early 1980s, the sword and soccer genre experienced a revival, with...

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Clash of the Titans (1981) Revisited: Does the Ray Harryhausen classic hold up?

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Chris 1981’s Clash of the Titans signals the end of an era. In the fifties, sixties and even part of the seventies, stop-motion maestro Ray Harryhausen was the guy you went to if you wanted to do a fantasy epic....

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Hawk the Slayer Revisited: Fantasizing About Fantasy Films

Posted 4 years ago

Chris While the sword and sorcery genre dominated genre cinema in the first half of the eighties, thanks to the influence of Conan the Barbarian, one film predates this trend. That movie is – Hawk the Slayer! If you’re based...

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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001) Revisited: Fantasy Movie Review

Posted 4 years ago

Chris The latest addition to J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding World, Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, landed with a bit of a thud when it opened in theaters last month. The only J.K. Rowling-affiliated movie to fall short of the $100...

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MirrorMask (2005) Revisited: Fantasy Movie Review (Neil Gaiman)

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Chris Neil Gaiman is most assuredly a legend in the realms of fantasy. Graphic Novels, books, and film, Neil Gaiman has conquered them all with a lovely turn of phrase with charm and wit to match. And all that charm,...

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Time Bandits (1981) Revisited – Fantasy Movie Review

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Chris Fantasy can be an escape for many of us when it comes to the movies.  It’s a genre that’s wide open to all sorts of ideas and imagination.  That’s really what the genre is all about actually, imagination and...

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Labyrinth (1986) Revisited – Fantasy Movie Review

Posted 4 years ago

Chris Jim Henson was made of magic. That magic spread throughout many of our childhoods with Sesame Street, The Muppet Show, and more. Henson created creatures we’d never seen but within all of them was a humanity that shown through...

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