Posted by in Film Reviews, Modern Culture, Undergraduate Posts As a palate cleanser from the low-budget drivial I force myself to consume, I decided to watch The Stronghold, a 2017 film by director Yuri Kovalev. Did it perform its necessary role and remove the sludge from my mouth? Yes, for the most part; aside from the Racism (?), more on that later. First things…Read more »
Posted by in Ancient/Early Modern, Film Reviews, Undergraduate Posts Since I have been on an Amazon Prime medieval movie kick, lately, I decided to switch things up a notch by watching a film set during the Early Modern period. Enter Storm and Luther’s Forbidden Letters. Released just last year in 2017, the film is a period piece during The Reformation. It follows 12-year-old Storm…Read more »
Posted by in Arthurian Mythology, Film Reviews, Undergraduate Posts Any time that I watch a low-budget Arthurian film, something almost always happens—I either eagerly devour the movie due to how terrible it is, or I find myself knocking myself out because I am so bored. Thankfully, director Rubiano Cruz’s late-nineties spin on the legend was easy to watch. It was, dare I say, all…Read more »
Posted by in Arthurian Mythology, Film Reviews, Undergraduate Posts If this blog is going to be known for anything, it will be known for reviewing low-budget, B-film quality crap cheaply centered around Arthuriana. Fantastic, right? I know. I am not one to disappoint my audience, so let’s continue our medieval movie nights with Merlin’s Shop of Mystical Wonders, a film that, I assure you,…Read more »
Posted by in Ancient/Early Modern, Film Reviews, Undergraduate Posts What is there to really say about this film from almost a decade ago? Likely, with age, there isn’t any more to say now than when it first released, but I supposed there are a few words that I can conjure now that time has left any expectations at the door. A big part of…Read more »
Posted by in Culture of Days Gone By, Modern Culture, Musings, Resources, Undergraduate Posts As an academic-in-training, I have a stake in the state of the field. So, I read plenty of various blogs and websites. Some I read more than others, though I often lament not reading some more than I should. But some sites are just so good, I need to rave about them for a little…Read more »
Posted by in Chaucer Journal, Resources, Undergraduate Posts Do you like Chaucer? Do you like films? Do you like films adapted from Chaucer’s works? This is probably a hard question to answer since Hollywood is not exactly clamoring to make hundreds of Chaucer movies. In fact, you maybe have not even seen a film which concerns Chaucer (perhaps, besides, Heath Ledger’s “A Knight’s…Read more »
