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The Essential Fantasy Movies of 1983

September 10, 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 […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Conquest, Deathstalker, Hercules, Krull, return of the jedi, spacehunter: adventures in the forbidden zone, Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi, Superman III, Zu Warriors From The Magic Mountain

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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