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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

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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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The Princess Bride (1987) – Fantasizing About Fantasy Films

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Chris What makes a classic?  How do you somehow create a perfect film?  Is it luck, talent, or just meant to be?  When people think about perfect movies there aren’t that many usually that can be thought of.  But typically,...

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Krull (1983) – Fantasizing About Fantasy Films

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Chris Back in the 1980’s, every studio in town was chasing the success of Star Wars by releasing their own sci-fi epics. In the meantime, Conan the Barbarian brought the fantasy genre back to the mainstream, and if you put...

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Excalibur (1981) – Fantasizing About Fantasy Films

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Chris In 1981, John Boorman released his passion project, Excalibur. A bold, very adult, serious take on the Arthurian legend, the film was a modest financial success, grossing $34 million domestically. However, to many, it stands at the definitive story...

Highlander (1986) – Fantasizing About Fantasy Films

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In this episode of Fantasizing About Fantasy Films, we take a look back at one of the biggest cult classics of the eighties, Russell Mulcahy's Highlander. Although a flop upon its initial release, at least domestically, significant box office receipts in...

Dragonslayer (1981) – Fantasizing About Fantasy Films

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This week on Fantasizing About Fantasy Films, we're taking a deep dive into one of the strangest films ever to emerge from Disney – Dragonslayer – a co-production with Paramount Pictures that ranks as one of the darkest sword and sorcery...

Conan The Barbarian (1982) – Fantasizing About Fantasy Films

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Conan the Barbarian is the film that kicked off the fantasy film revival of the eighties. Expected to be a huge blockbuster, Conan the Barbarian paved the way for all the clones that would follow, but the original John Milius film is...

The Beastmaster (1982): Fantasizing About Fantasy Films

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Welcome back to Fantasizing About Fantasy Films! Written and narrated by Jessica Dwyer, in this very special episode we look back at an eighties cult classic, The Beastmaster, starring Marc Singer and the late Tanya Roberts. Directed by Don Coscarelli,...

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