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10 Iconic Movie Weapons Every Millennial Kid Wanted

September 1, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

A cool movie weapon makes all the difference in genre films and we look at ten movie weapons every millennial kid wanted… Action and sci-fi films and their relentless battles between good and evil have one consistent. Weaponry is involved and whether it’s the use of real-life weapons or creations for your film, making it […]

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The Essential Fantasy Movies of 1983

November 25, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

We journey back to 1983 for swords, glaves, sorcery, space adventures and fights with bears in the essential fantasy films of 1983… The 80s were a golden era of fantasy cinema. For the most part, these films were primarily aimed at a younger audience as Hollywood suddenly realised the money-spinning potential of targetting kids with […]

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The Greatest 80s Fantasy Film Scores

February 2, 2022 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe looks at back a great selection of 80’s fantasy film scores… The 80’s was a grand age for fantasy films. Swords, sorcery, wizards, witches, warriors and battles of good versus evil. Some films were great. Others in the well fed genre were not so great, but back then, many still went all out […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Beastmaster, Conan the Barbarian, Excalibur, Hercules, Highlander, Krull, Legend, Masters of the Universe, red sonja, willow

Revisiting 80s Fantasy Films: The sublime, the ridiculous and the underrated

October 1, 2021 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe takes a jaunt back to the 80s to see how some of the decade’s biggest fantasy films have aged… Growing up as a young sprog in the 80’s I was treated to all manner of eye-catching fantasy films. A lot of these ‘kids’ films were completely savaged by critics at the time. I […]

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