Knights’ Tales: Looking at Representations of the Knight on Film
The present paper will focus on different portrayals of the knight in English-speaking films. What medieval features are kept? To what extent is accuracy important? How do these films contribute to our own modern day view of the knight and the Middle Ages?
Katherine of Alexandria: Decline of an Empire
According to hagiographers, (C)Katherine was a princess, the daughter of Roman governor named Constus. She was well educated, beautiful and highly intelligent. She converted to Christianity at the age of 13 or 14 and caught the eye of the Roman Emperor, Maxentius (278-318 AD).
’I’m gonna git Medieval on your ass’: Pulp Fiction for the 90s – the 1190s
We feel confident in asserting that there are any number of telling informative analogies between Pulp Fiction and medieval chivalric literature, particularly Arthurian romance.
What is Your Favourite Scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail?
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail, here are some of the best scenes from the film. Vote for the one that is your favourite!
The Quickener – A Medieval Tale
The year is 1348. Medieval England has just been struck by a terrifying plague. The fate of a young sculptor and his wife will be decided today. With a brutal moneylender breathing down their necks and The Black Death wrecking havoc will they be able to escape doom?
Do You Remember Braveheart?
Were you paying attention when you saw this Scottish adventure from 1995?
What Character From The Princess Bride Are You?
Are you a prince, pirate, princess, or peasant?
New Movie: Outcast
Being released today in theatres in North America, as well as on Video-on-Demand, Outcast is set in medieval China and stars Nicholas Cage and Hayden Christensen.
Medieval Films: Come Back Home
If you are looking to watch a new medieval movie, Come Back Home, which was released today on Youtube, is well worth a look. The 15-minute short film tells the story of a family having to deal with going to war in fourteenth-century Scotland.
Movie Review: The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
That was one long battle scene – however, The Hobbit trilogy ends with a relatively good movie.
The Viking (1928): ‘Where Norse maids wear rather short skirts and cute winged metal helmets’
For its corny helmet and scantily clad damsels in distress with matching horns or wings, it asks the right question humanity has been asking from the beginning.
Movie Review: Dracula Untold
‘Sometimes the world doesn’t need a hero. It needs a monster.’
MOVIE REVIEW – Dungeons & Dragons: Wrath of the Dragon God
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
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
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
An up and coming movie about Grace O’ Malley (Grainne Uaile), Ireland’s famous female pirate!
What Braveheart did for Scottish Independence
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
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)
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)
‘Say, you’re beautiful in your wrath.’ – John Wayne as Temujin
Viking Human Sacrifices: Hollywood vs Reality
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
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
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?
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
My review of the late medieval movie, Flesh and Blood.