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· by Thomas Stockel · Jan 18, 2021

The Beastmaster (1982), a recap (part 6 of 6)

Last time: Dar, Kiri and Tal snuck into the pyramid to rescue Zed, while Seth gathered rebel forces. Zed then proceeded to prep the good guys to walk into an ambush after banishing the good guy’s MVP. Morning finds Dar…

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· by Thomas Stockel · Jan 11, 2021

The Beastmaster (1982), a recap (part 5 of 6)

Last time: Dar met “pilgrims” that turned out to be Seth and Tal, the former king Zed’s captain of the guard and the latter Zed’s son. Together they helped free the slave girl Kiri, who turned out to be Tal’s…

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· by Thomas Stockel · Jan 4, 2021

The Beastmaster (1982), a recap (part 4 of 6)

Last time: Dar met human-eating bat people, then he went to town to find Rip Torn sacrificing children to Ar. Rescuing the last victim, he learned the slave women are being taken to a temple to be sacrificed, among them…

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· by Rob Kirchgassner · Dec 30, 2020

They pulled me back in: The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone

A while back, one of my colleagues on this site wrote a nice retrospective about the three movies that comprise the Godfather series. The Godfather, released in 1972, is rightfully regarded as a classic that made stars out of…

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· by Thomas Stockel · Dec 28, 2020

The Beastmaster (1982), a recap (part 3 of 6)

Last time: Dar’s entire village was wiped out by the Jun horde led by Rip Torn, leaving him the lone survivor. Arming himself, he hit the road of vengeance and picked up a few furry and feathered allies on the…

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· by Thomas Stockel · Dec 21, 2020

The Beastmaster (1982), a recap (part 2 of 6)

Last time: An evil wizard/priest and a host of witches attempted to sacrifice King Zed’s child to Ar(rrrrrrrrrrr!), but were thwarted by a passing stranger with a donkey. Raising the child as his own, Dar’s Dad learned his son could…

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· by Thomas Stockel · Dec 14, 2020

The Beastmaster (1982), a recap (part 1 of 6)

Prior to the 1980s, fantasy films were never a huge genre; if you look back at releases during the ’70s you had maybe one true fantasy film a year, be it animated flicks like The Lord of the Rings,…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Nov 12, 2020

Movie Duel: The Illusionist vs. The Prestige

Our latest installment of Movie Duels takes us back to the hoary years of 2006, when we got two movies about stage magicians in the late nineteenth slash early twentieth centuries. Now, it’s no surprise why magic shows were popular…

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· by Rob Kirchgassner · Nov 4, 2020

Sir Sean Connery’s best (non-James Bond) work

This Halloween brought the sad news of the passing of cinema great Sir Sean Connery. As has been thoroughly documented over the decades, Sir Sean was best known for being cinema’s first—and, for many, best—James Bond. It was also well-known…

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· by Thomas Stockel · Nov 2, 2020

Battle Beyond the Stars (1980), a recap (part 6 of 6)

Last time: Sador arrived and ran headlong into stiff opposition, losing fighters and many soldiers on the surface of Akir. But the good guys suffered losses as well, with many farmers turned fighters dying along with Gelt and possibly the…

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· by Thomas Stockel · Oct 26, 2020

Battle Beyond the Stars (1980), a recap (part 5 of 6)

Last time: Sador’s sentries upon Akir they preyed and were themselves waylaid. Our heroes prepared for Sador’s raid by constructing moat and stockade, all the while a harmonica was played. Then St. Exim at Sador threw shade! But was her…

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· by Thomas Stockel · Oct 19, 2020

Battle Beyond the Stars (1980), a recap (part 4 of 6)

Last time: Shad and Nan found new recruits: an assassin for hire, a collective consciousness that was bored, and a reptilian space whaler with a grudge. Oh, and Sybil Danning. Speaking of which… Gelt (Robert Vaughn, in case you forgot…

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· by Steven Birkner · Oct 14, 2020

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies, ranked

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles theatrical film series, like most long running film series, has its ups and downs and its periods of dormancy as well. In looking over all of the six, it’s easy for me to determine which…

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· by Thomas Stockel · Oct 12, 2020

Battle Beyond the Stars (1980), a recap (part 3 of 6)

Last time: Shad avoided a frog march to the wedding altar and made two new friends, and Sador nuked a planet… pretty much because he could. We cut to Nanelia, who had been heading to the Lambda sector. She’s flying…

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· by Thomas Stockel · Oct 5, 2020

Battle Beyond the Stars (1980), a recap (part 2 of 6)

Last time: Sador of the Malmori showed up in his hammer (time!) ship to threaten the Akira and their peaceful way of life. With him coming back in seven days, it’s up to wide-eyed farm boy Shad to take…

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· by Rob Kirchgassner · Sep 30, 2020

Roger Corman’s Edgar Allan Poe films (part 2 of 2)

Read part one of this list. Roger Corman kept his Edgar Allan Poe series going strong with four additional films in the series. The Raven (1963) The fifth entry in the series took on a more flamboyant, lighthearted tone. The…

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· by Thomas Stockel · Sep 28, 2020

Battle Beyond the Stars (1980), a recap (part 1 of 6)

To say Star Wars was a gamechanger is putting it lightly. While science fiction as a genre had been represented in some way, shape, or form in cinema since its inception, it seemed once George Lucas and Gary Kurtz’s masterpiece…

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· by Rob Kirchgassner · Sep 16, 2020

Roger Corman’s Edgar Allan Poe films (part 1 of 2)

Roger Corman has always been regarded as the filmmaker who, if he didn’t invent the B-movie, certainly perfected it. During the course of his decades-spanning career, Corman has produced, directed, written, and acted in numerous films across multiple genres. He…

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· by Thomas Stockel · Aug 31, 2020

Conan the Destroyer (1984), a recap (part 6 of 6)

Last time: Jehnna retrieved the horn, which turned out to be in possession of another faction of Dagoth worshipers. Bombaata escaped with the princess and the horn, leaving the others in the dust with the knowledge that when Taramis gets…

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· by Thomas Stockel · Aug 24, 2020

Conan the Destroyer (1984), a recap (part 5 of 6)

Last time: Bombaata’s boys blew it when they tried to kidnap the princess, Conan got his drink on, the gang found a dungeon to plunder, and against all odds Tracey Walter made me like Malak. Let’s see if my hatred…

Category: Movies

The Beastmaster (1982), a recap (part 6 of 6)

The Beastmaster (1982), a recap (part 5 of 6)

The Beastmaster (1982), a recap (part 4 of 6)

They pulled me back in: The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone

The Beastmaster (1982), a recap (part 3 of 6)

The Beastmaster (1982), a recap (part 2 of 6)

The Beastmaster (1982), a recap (part 1 of 6)

Movie Duel: The Illusionist vs. The Prestige

Sir Sean Connery’s best (non-James Bond) work

Battle Beyond the Stars (1980), a recap (part 6 of 6)

Battle Beyond the Stars (1980), a recap (part 5 of 6)

Battle Beyond the Stars (1980), a recap (part 4 of 6)

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies, ranked

Battle Beyond the Stars (1980), a recap (part 3 of 6)

Battle Beyond the Stars (1980), a recap (part 2 of 6)

Roger Corman’s Edgar Allan Poe films (part 2 of 2)

Battle Beyond the Stars (1980), a recap (part 1 of 6)

Roger Corman’s Edgar Allan Poe films (part 1 of 2)

Conan the Destroyer (1984), a recap (part 6 of 6)

Conan the Destroyer (1984), a recap (part 5 of 6)

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