MOVIE REVIEW: ‘A Knight’s Tale’
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
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)
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
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
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
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
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
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
TUGG screenings begin January 21st; available On Demand and Digitally February 11th
Wounded
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
While the first film was mostly criticized for its divergences from the novel, in this second instalment they usually prove to be an improvement.
Medieval Myth-Busting at the Movies
The five of the most common myths about the Middle Ages from the movies, busted.
Medieval Movie Review: Army of Darkness
Alright you primitive screwheads, listen up! You see this? This… is my boomstick!
Here comes the Hun again…
TSMorangles takes a look at the 1954 film Sign of the Pagan, starring Jack Palance as Attila and Jeff Chandler as Marcian.
Movie Preview: Vikingdom
Being released today in 21 cities across the United States, this Malaysian-made film is loosely based on Viking mythology.
Review: Prince Vladimir
If the Anglo-Saxons bemoan about the mist surrounding the Dark Ages, wait till you meet Russians!
The ‘New’ Monty Python and the Holy Grail trailer
Imagine Monty Python and the Holy Grail not as a comedy, but as a serious historical epic! This would be its trailer.