Iron Warrior (1987) – This is the third movie of the loose “Ator” franchise, i.e., the third movie in which Miles O’Keeffe plays a barbarian warrior named “Ator,” even though there’s now even less connection to the earlier movies than there was between first first and second. (A few dozen more of these, and Ator…
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Movies Seen Recently: Hawk the Slayer, My Mother the Spy, Back in Time
Hawk the Slayer (1980) – I last saw this when I was eighteen. Unlike me, it has not improved with age. Generic good-guy prince Hawk (John Terry) inherits a magic sword from his father to fight his bad-guy older brother Voltan (Jack Palance (!), a full thirty years older than Terry). The big bad-guy affront…
Sketch of the Day Omnibus Post.
That’s right, I finally filled another sketchbook, so the Sketch of the Day has recommenced!
Movies Seen Recently: The Raid: Redemption, The Invincible Barbarian, The Blade Master
The Raid: Redemption (2011) – My son introduced this movie to me with, “It’s Dredd without Judge Dredd but with John Wick-levels of action.” Sold! The story is little more than a premise: An Indonesian S.W.A.T. team (with rookie member Rama (Iko Kawais) as the protagonist) stages a raid on a thirty-floor brutalist apartment building…
Movies Seen Recently: Deathstalker 2, Conan the Destroyer, Excalibur
Deathstalker 2: Duel of the Titans (1987) – We visit again the sword-&-sorcery subgenre called “Completely Unrelated to the Boris Vallejo Poster Art.” The only commonalities between this movie and the first Deathstalker are (1) the protagonist’s name — “Deathstalker” — and (2) the setting, “generic ancient pseudo-European fantasy world.” This time out, instead of…
Movies Seen Recently: Pulse, Conquest, The Archer
Pulse (2001) – Two completely separate storylines here that don’t intersect until the last ten minutes, and neither of them make any sense. There’s something about maybe people disappearing because of an internet site (but then it just turns out that people are disappearing willy-nilly), and maybe souls of the are stuck in a pseudo-electronic…
Movies Seen Recently: Forsaken, The Grandmaster, Shango
Forsaken (2015) – Donald and Kiefer Sutherland star as a grumpy old widower preacher and his black sheep son who left to fight in the Civil War and then kept outlawing for years after, now returned home to make amends, respectively. One could make the case (that’s my way of saying that I’m going to…