Saturday, March 25, 2017

EXCALIBUR

Thirty-six years ago, there wasn’t much that would convince this reviewer and his geeky homeboys to miss an evening of playing Dungeons & Dragons in the pub. Where else would you play it? But one night in the spring of 1981, the locals had to find some other weirdos to stare at because John Boorman’s Excalibur had arrived at the local fleapit and we’d gone off on a collective jolly to drool over it. This was the movie we’d been waiting for.

We’re not going to dwell on the plot as we all know the legends of King Arthur but this is a fairly straight telling of Sir Thomas Malory’s 15th century Le Morte d'Arthur version of the story. So we start with an implausibly armoured

Read more...



from Horror and Sci Fi Magazines http://www.starburstmagazine.com/reviews/dvd-and-blu-ray-home-entertainment-reviews/17815-blu-ray-review-excalibur

No comments:

Post a Comment