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Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984) | Hugh Hudson

May 1, 2020 qwipster Comment is Closed

Based on elements within Edgar Rice Burroughs’s 1912 novel, “Tarzan of the Apes,” Greystoke begins in the late 19th century, where a young couple born into Scottish nobility, Jack Clayton and his pregnant wife Alice, find themselves shipwrecked off the coast of Western Africa. Months later, they give birth to a boy who quickly becomes […]

The Beastmaster (1982) | Don Coscarelli

April 24, 2020 qwipster Comment is Closed

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The Beastmaster follows the hero, Dar (Marc Singer), the son of a king snatched away from his mother’s womb by a witch under the employ of the evil magician named Maax (Rip Torn). Maax had been prophesied to be killed by the son of a king (to which he takes to slaughtering all of the […]

Sheena (1984) | John Guillermin

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The story of Sheena involves a young girl orphaned after her geologist parents are killed in a cave-in while exploring the source of mystical healing soil found near the jungle in the fictional African country of Tigora. The native Zambouli villagers immediately adopt the girl, dubbing her “Sheena,” prophecied to be their savior and the […]

Red Sonja (1985) | Richard Fleischer

April 10, 2020 qwipster Comment is Closed

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An unofficial spinoff of sorts to the Conan franchise, Red Sonja starts off with Sonja (Brigitte Nielsen) as an attractive farm girl that evil lesbian Queen Gedren of Berkubane (Sandahl Bergman) finds fetching enough to invite over. Sonja finds the offer so repulsive she ends up giving the queen’s face a nasty gash. Spurned, Sonja’s […]

Conan the Destroyer (1984) | Richard Fleischer

April 3, 2020 qwipster Comment is Closed

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Power-hungry Queen Tamaris of Shadizar (Sarah Douglas), who offers Conan (Arnold Schwarzenegger) a bargain. Taramis will resurrect his dead lover Valeria upon completion of a special mission. He is to assist with the protection of her niece, a young virgin princess named Jehnna (Olivia d’Abo). Jehnna travels with her bodyguard Bombaata (Wilt Chamberlain), to venture into […]

Conan the Barbarian (1982) | John Milius

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The setting of this fantasy-adventure based on Robert E. Howard’s literary creations is the Hyborian Age, a fictional period invented by Howard, around 10,000 B.C. It is a time of magic, madmen, and mercenaries, and barbarians who kill before they end up killed. The film starts with Conan (Arnold Schwarzenegger) as a young lad in […]

Fire and Ice (1983) | Ralph Bakshi

March 20, 2020 qwipster Comment is Closed

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This animated story involves a fantasy world imagined before the last ice age, featuring human civilizations and exotic dinosaurs coexisting. It is a time where the lands are divided among two factions, the evil Ice Peak sorcerer warlords, Queen Juliana and her wicked son Nekron, leading an army of ape-like subhumans, and the goodly Fire […]

Return to Oz (1985) | Walter Murch

March 12, 2020 qwipster Comment is Closed

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Nine months after her Oz experience, Dorothy wants to return to check in with her friends. Aunt Em thinks Dorothy is mentally ill. She seeks treatment from an experimental clinic using electroshock therapy to treat maladies of the mind. Dorothy is taken to an eerie clinic run by an uncaring Dr. Worley and the stern […]

Willow (1988) | Ron Howard

March 6, 2020 qwipster Comment is Closed

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The story involves Willow Ufgood (Warwick Davis), a farmer who dreams of becoming a sorcerer’s apprentice among the Nerwyns, which are a race of little people. One day, he encounters a baby who has washed onto the riverbank near his farm. The baby, who we come to learn is named Elora Danan, is a Daikini, […]

Ewoks: The Battle for Endor (1985) | Ken & Jim Wheat

February 28, 2020 qwipster Comment is Closed

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The moon of Endor gets attacked by a vicious band of thuggish Sanyassan marauders, whose ancestors also crashlanded on Endor some time ago, and a powerful shape-shifting sorceress named Charal under the leadership of King Terak. They attack the Ewok village, taking the crashed Towani ship’s power source after killing Cindel’s family, then take away […]

The Ewok Adventure | Caravan of Courage (1984)

February 21, 2020 qwipster Comment is Closed

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George Lucas’s story for this made-for-TV spin-off from the Star Wars films involves a spacecraft that crash lands on Endor. The mother and father spend the film looking for their two children, a fourteen-year-old named Mace Towani and his four-year-old sister, Cindel, not knowing that they’ve been taken in by the kindly Ewoks whose village […]

The Star Wars Holiday Special (1978) | Steve Binder (with David Acomba)

February 14, 2020 qwipster Comment is Closed

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The Star Wars Holiday Special is a two-hour made-for-TV musical variety show movie that aired on November 17. 1978 on CBS for its November sweeps period.). Variety shows were hot on TV in the 1970s and this effort would serve as a ratings bonanza, putting the hottest cultural phenomenon of the last year in front […]

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991) | Nicholas Meyer

February 7, 2020 qwipster Comment is Closed

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The final of the Star Trek films to feature the entire original cast, Star Trek VI draws many parallels to the end of the Cold War between the United States (represented here by the Federation) and the Soviet Union (the big bad Klingons). An explosion occurs on the Klingon moon known as Praxis (an allusion to […]

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989) | William Shatner

January 31, 2020 qwipster Comment is Closed

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Star Trek V starts off with the crew taking over the reins of new Enterprise starship, and their first impromptu mission requires them to travel to the near desolate planet of Nimbus III, where a rogue Vulcan known as Sybok (Laurence Luckinbill) has placed several key ambassadors as hostages in order to draw a starship to […]

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) | Leonard Nimoy

January 24, 2020February 10, 2020 qwipster Comment is Closed

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Star Trek IV starts with our heroes on planet Vulcan, loading up to go home and face punishment from the Federation for their hijacking of the Enterprise and its subsequent destruction, as well as the sabotage of the Excelsior. As they approach Earth, they find that a giant space probe is threatening to destroy the […]