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Godzilla Minus One: Is It The Best Kaiju Movie Ever?

Posted 2 years ago

The Fantasizing About Fantasy Films series asks an important question: is Godzilla Minus One the best kaiju movie ever?

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Fire and Ice: Revisited Ralph Bakshi’s Animated Epic

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We take a look back at Ralph Bakshi's animated fantasy epic, Fire and Ice, from 1983.

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Red Sonja: Revisiting the movie Arnold Schwarzenegger wishes he could forget

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We take a look back at the infamous 1985 adaptation of Red Sonja starring Brigitte Nielsen and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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

Posted 2 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

Posted 3 years ago

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

Posted 3 years ago

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 Hollywood...

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

Posted 3 years ago

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. His...

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Hawk the Slayer Revisited: Fantasizing About Fantasy Films

Posted 3 years ago

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 in...

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

Posted 4 years ago

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 million...

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