Heavy Metal : Den ( A quick break from the usual routine.)

I'm not even gonna write a summary or anything, I could but with only four hours sleep in two days, I'm sure you can forgive me for having not done so. Now this is just a little side-track from what I have planned for my next blog, I'm sure you've seen this before, but it's always fun to watch regardless. Please enjoy.

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HeroQuest

Well, it's been a while since I did one of these articles, but today was one of those drudgingly boring sorts of days,ripe for blogging. So out of that dreadful, painfully awkward boredom, I present to you a game I was rather fond of all those years ago; I give you HeroQuest! I used to love this game! What am I saying,I still love this game. It's easy, it's challenging and most of all, it's still a lot of fun to play. In fact,it's one of the simplest board games of this type I've ever played. Though I do believe it to be more of a hybrid of both fantasy and sword and sorcery,the distinction isn't clear,nor is it all that important in this game. On one hand you have orcs and elves,and on the other you have a barbarian and an evil sorcerer, who to me appears very similar to Skeletor from Masters of the Universe. I was lucky to find myself a copy of this game at an outlet store back in the early 90's, still brand new in the shrink-wrap. I'm glad I...

Hawk the Slayer

Well, I'm starting this whole blogging thing all over again after blogger ( blogspot ?) decided to erase my old account,so I thought I'd start off fresh this time with a rare,yet truly bizarre first posting. And that subject my dear friends,is Hawk the Slayer.Now,I won't go into great detail about the movie,but it's essentially your basic sword and sorcery film about a man and his loyal companions who seek revenge against non-other than Lord Voltan (Jack Palance ) who seems similar to Darth Vader in certain ways ( maybe it's the helmet that does it). In addition,he's also Hawk's (John Terry's) brother,who appears to be at least 40 years older than hawk himself. Which is funny because Voltan doesn't appear to be much younger than his father,whom he murders in order to wield his father's secret magical powers,only to fail miserably. This movie,while being a sword and sorcery film,still retains elements of light fantasy and in some cases,even m...

Fire & Ice

Fire & Ice is by far one of the best animated features in the sword and sorcery world. It's the kinda movie you can watch countless times and it's still just as good after the first time seeing it. It has the perfect mix of creatures and primitive cultures to make it as fantastic and otherworldly as possible,while lacking the infamous "cornball moments" most noticeable within the genre. Initially Fire & Ice was a collaboration between Roy Thomas ( who wrote the better part of the Conan series for Marvel comics) Frank Frazetta and of course Ralph Bakshi. The film used live actors who we're animated through rotoscoping,which became popular long before digital animation was made widely available. Though rotoscoping was heavily used in Bakshi's other films,never before had it been utilized with such spectacular detail as with Fire & Ice. Lunch! I fell in love with this movie several years back and hadn't seen it up till that point;in fac...

The Black River

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