Tag Archives: Fantasy

Slave Girls (1967)

Posted on April 28, 2011 at 8:31 am by Jeff Kuykendall

There is a single brief scene in Slave Girls (1967) which perhaps explains why the film exists. Martine Beswick, the Jamaican-born actress who posed, strutted, and wrestled her way through From Russia With Love (1963), Thunderball (1965), and One Million … Continue reading →

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Time Bandits (1981)

Posted on April 15, 2011 at 10:57 am by Jeff Kuykendall

Monty Python animator Terry Gilliam finally came into his own with 1981’s Time Bandits, a film which put him on the map as a cinematic fantasist to be reckoned with.  But it took a few attempts.  Monty Python and the … Continue reading →

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Wizards (1977)

Posted on January 8, 2011 at 10:21 am by Jeff Kuykendall

Wizards is a film that only seems to make some kind of logical sense when viewed as part of a Ralph Bakshi marathon.  Placed in context within his body of work, sandwiched between the radically cartoonish, venomously indignant Coonskin (1975) … Continue reading →

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