Your Saturday night Medieval Movie – this time, I review Dungeons & Dragons: The Wrath of the Dragon God.
Not Dead Yet: Monty Python and the Holy Grail in the Twenty-first Century
September 13, 2014 By
The destruction of film tradition, if not film as a medium, begins in Monty Python and the Holy Grail with the famous mobile credits.
The Princess Bride
September 12, 2014 By
Not quite medieval, but too great not to include, we take a look at the 1987 film The Princess Bride, starring Cary Elwes, Robin Wright and Mandy Patinkin.
Grainne Uaile: The Movie
September 10, 2014 By
An up and coming movie about Grace O’ Malley (Grainne Uaile), Ireland’s famous female pirate!
What Braveheart did for Scottish Independence
August 20, 2014 By
Twenty years ago support for Scottish independence was confined to a small minority – but the release of the film Braveheart in the spring of 1995 changed their fortunes.
Dreaming the Middle Ages: American Neomedievalism in A Knight’s Tale and Timeline
August 2, 2014 By
This study will offer two Hollywood productions, A Knight’s Tale and Timeline, as visual representations that illustrate the reasons behind what may be called American Neomedievalism.
MOVIE REVIEW: Order of the Holy Grail (Captain Thunder)
July 26, 2014 By
This is a review of the Spanish medieval film: Captain Thunder or Order of The Holy Grail (El Capitán Trueno y el Santo Grial)
One of the worst movies ever made: The Conqueror (1956)
July 11, 2014 By
‘Say, you’re beautiful in your wrath.’ – John Wayne as Temujin
Viking Human Sacrifices: Hollywood vs Reality
July 6, 2014 By
In his article, ‘Plastic Pagans: Viking Human Sacrifice in Film and Television’, Harry Brown notes a very key difference between how it is being portrayed and how it was in reality.
Medieval Movie Review: The Physician
June 21, 2014 By
It’s a brilliant film and one well worth your medieval Saturday night in!
Merovingian Movies Mania, Part 3: The Good King Dabogert 1984 or why remakes are never as good as the original
June 16, 2014 By
It took 6 hours including breaks when a miffed TS Morangles almost slammed the key-board to complete watching this atrocity.
Which Hero Are You From the Movie The Princess Bride?
June 12, 2014 By
Do you have the right personality to say ‘Hello! My name is Inigo Montoya! You killed my father! Prepare to die!’
MOVIE REVIEW: Flesh and Blood
June 7, 2014 By
My review of the late medieval movie, Flesh and Blood.
MOVIE REVIEW: Barbarossa – Siege Lord
May 28, 2014 By
MOVIE REVIEW: Barbarossa – Siege Lord “I order Milan to be raised to the ground. None of its towers will ever be standing. I also order all the Milanese to leave the city before sunset, in all different directions so that no one will be able to call themselves Milanese and the name “milan” will […]
MOVIE REVIEW: ‘A Knight’s Tale’
May 19, 2014 By
Staying home on a Sunday night? Looking for a fun medieval movie to watch? Here is my review of ‘A Knight’s Tale’ for your Sunday night selection!
Merovingian Movies Mania, Part 2: The Good King Dagobert
May 17, 2014 By
The synopsis is quite simple: a boy has some homework to complete about the life of the king. He daydreams, transforms his parents as the king and one of his queens …
Merovingian Movies Mania (Part 1)
April 25, 2014 By
This article is part of a series looking at movies filmed about the continental Age of Migrations
Macbeth film ‘Enemy of Man’ looks to raise money on Kickstarter
March 19, 2014 By
An independent feature film of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth starring Sean Bean, Rupert Grint and Charles Dance has almost raised half of the $250 000 they are seeking on the crowd-funding website Kickstarter.
Star Wars and the Middle Ages
March 16, 2014 By
When George Lucas wrote up the screen play that would become Episode IV: A New Hope, he would make use of medieval history to help create his galaxy far, far away.
Vikings in Cinema: a Case Study of How to Train Your Dragon
March 4, 2014 By
This paper combines archaeological attention to the past (the Vikings and their material culture, beliefs and so on and a Žižekian fascination with Hollywood films to examine How to Train Your Dragon (2010), a 3-D animated film about Vikings for children.
Five Things to Love About A Knight’s Tale
February 27, 2014 By
Was it really just a sports movie set in the past? Yes. Was it edited until the plot seems a little less-than-coherent? Yes. But are there things we can love about it? Absolutely.
Arms and the Man: how the Scots who bled with Wallace fought in Braveheart and in History
January 21, 2014 By
What Braveheart showed was a parody of an archery barrage which, in fact, would be fairly continuous until most of the arrows available, about forty to each bowman, had been shot. Nor would there be longish pauses between single flights of arrows, in perhaps a sporting spirit in order to give the Scots time to recover their spirits and dress their ranks in time for the next hail of missiles, or, in the film, to bare their arses in vulgar mockery of their enemies.
Knights of Badassdom
January 20, 2014 By
TUGG screenings begin January 21st; available On Demand and Digitally February 11th
Wounded
December 18, 2013 By
Two knights and a foot soldier survive the massacre only to be hunted down in a forest infested with enemy.
Review: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
December 13, 2013 By
While the first film was mostly criticized for its divergences from the novel, in this second instalment they usually prove to be an improvement.
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