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  • Why DRAGONSLAYER (1981) Slays ALL CG Hollywood Dragons!

    Today talk all things about dragons and just why Dragonslayer’s Vermithrax is the BEST dragon ever put to film! I checked it out on blu-ray after decades and it HOLDS up. So much so that it makes a mockery of all the CGI dragons Hollywood has churned out over the years! This classic fantasy film…

  • Movie Review: ‘The Head Hunter’, a Dark Fairy Tale of Monster Revenge!

    Here’s a pretty interesting little tale of midieval monster revenge, 2019’s ‘The Head Hunter’, a short & sweet little film that clocks in just a hair over 70 minutes in length. We follow a lonely barbarian who’s daughter is snatched up and killed by a monster that roams the nearby wilderness. We see clearly from…

  • Comic Review: Night’s Dominion #1 – A Medieval Magical Heist!

    Night’s Dominion is a brand new comic from Oni Press that came out today and the first issue is a pretty promising little start to what’s sure to be an epic adventure. I’ve been looking for a cool comic book to quench my thirst for fantasy adventure and stuff like Dungeons & Dragons for a…

  • Coming Soon: An Even Longer R-Rated Cut of The Bloated Hobbit Flick? No Thank You!!

    Oh man so today I heard we’re going to get an R-Rated version of the super bloated Peter jackson Hobbit films? This means really that “The Battle of the Five Armies” will have an extended R-Rated cut. This will likely feature a ton more outrageous CG, B.S. subplots and hey maybe if we’re lucky some…

  • Junkyard: A Truly Breathtaking Animated Short!

    Check out this animated short film that was just  released online today called “Junkyard” by Dutch animator Hisko Hulsing. It’s easily some of the most breathtaking animation I’ve seen in quite some time. Here’s the trailer: It recalls Ralph Bakshi in style by utilizing rotoscoping as in movies like The Lord of the Rings” and…

  • Saruman Delivers Some Power Metal for X-mas!!

    Damn Christopher Lee is a bad ass. He’s played so many great roles in so many great movies and what some people don’t know is that he also makes metal albums! Yeah believe it. He has two out now I believe and his latest efforst is a power metal Christmas album! So everyone out there…

  • Gandalf Lives In Pdx!

    Yep more proof Portland, Oregon is a pretty great place live…

  • Don’t Go to Prison! You Won’t Be Able to Play…..D&D?!!

    I know, I know what the HELL is this world coming to you ask? Just recently here we get a crazy report in Florida, which isn’t really that surprising, about a naked man eating the face off of another naked man under a bridge and grunting like a zombie. What’s up with that folks? I…

  • More Classics-Getting Sequel-ized!!? Don’t Bet on it!

    Yeah well that ain’t all Ihave to say about classics getting a sequel instead of a reboot-On a lower budget scale how about The Gate 3 with Stephen Dorff and Louis Tripp? Damn get these guys back together-and I don’t give a shit if it’s direct to dvd-it’d totally rule to get the Gate opened…

  • More Norwegian Trolls Please!

    Ever since I was a little kid I have had a fascination with Ny Form Trolls! No not the weird mongoloid looking  ones with the neon hair, the bad ass ones from Norway! Ny Forms  also have “real” hair as well but these ones look the way trolls were meant to. These amazing little sculptures hit the…