Monthly Archives: June 2015

Dragonslayer (1981)

Posted on June 8, 2015 at 7:49 pm by Jeff Kuykendall

I wanted to follow up my review of Excalibur (1981) with Dragonslayer (1981), not just because it’s another sword & sorcery film released the same year, but because it’s trying to do much the same thing thematically, albeit with a … Continue reading →

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Excalibur (1981)

Posted on June 3, 2015 at 8:20 pm by Jeff Kuykendall

John Boorman is not after realism with Excalibur (1981). The dialogue, the characterizations, the behaviors – none of these are intended to replicate real life, but are deliberately outsized, almost predetermined. The characters behave as they are intended to behave: as … Continue reading →

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