There are films that age like old hard drives, slow and clunky the moment you revisit them....
Movie Swords
Swords from movies often capture our imaginations due to their unique designs, iconic status, and the characters who wield them.
A Historian’s Look at Legend, Politics and Steel Excalibur has always sat at an odd crossroads. Half...
Watching The Name of the Rose today feels a bit like wandering into a medieval library after...
When The Northman hit cinemas in 2022, it was supposed to be the Viking epic that would...
The medieval and Renaissance eras have given cinema some of its most breathtaking stories, equal parts brutal,...
There are war epics, and then there is Red Cliff. John Woo’s 2008 masterpiece doesn’t just depict...
“Nothing like it had ever been made, and nothing like it would ever be attempted again.” That’s...
When Stanley Kubrick’s Spartacus hit cinemas in 1960, it was sold as a sword-and-sandal epic with Kirk...
When Bernardo Bertolucci released The Last Emperor in 1987, it was clearly something unexpected. It was in...
There’s something endlessly magnetic about witches. They exist in that strange, enticing space between power and peril,...