The Jim Henson operation was riding high in 1986 when Labyrinth hit the big screens. This was actually their second big fantasy film (if yo...

The Dark Crystal from 1982 is a darn good fantasy movie from the folks who gave us The Muppets. That technology is used for good to tell th...

It's pretty impossible to express the excitement I was filled with anticipating the film version of The Lord of the Rings. Rumors had r...

J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings had touched off a renaissance for fantasy literature. Publishers were agog to get something onto...

Below are three review I wrote over the years for the three installments of The Hobbit as directed by Peter Jackson. I've tweaked them ...

The Greatest Adventure or The Ballad of The Hobbit Music by Maury Laws Lyrics by Jules Bass Sung by Glenn Yarbrough The greatest adventure i...

This month-long look at movie and comics featuring sword-wielding types such as King Arthur and his cronies would not be complete without a ...

I've matured a bit since I first saw it on the big screen in 1981 but Excalibur at that time was a mighty movie which was filled with r...

This artwork by the late Jeffery Jones is a pretty sweet image for a pretty sweet little 1981 movie.  Dragonslayer  was a neat little micro-...

Ator or Ator the Fighing Eagle or whatever name it travels under at any given point and time is a derivative piece of barbarian schlock. Cle...