I don't think anything will ever change my mind that the best Robin Hood movie we've ever gotten was Errol Flynn's. This often-overlooked British version, however, deserves to snag the second place slot.
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After a years-long hiatus, the INCspotllight Interviews are finally back! Today's guest is Lillie Lainoff, an award-winning writer and activist whose work has been published in The Washington Post, Today's Parent, and The Los Angeles Review, to name but a few. She was also a member of Yale's Varsity Fencing Team, where she was also managing editor of the Yale Daily News Magazine. She continues to compete in and coach fencing, and in 2017, the US Fencing Association awarded her the Spirit of Sport Award. Her first novel, One For All, will be released on March 8th. So sit back, relax, and
Errol Flynn returns to the INCspotlight just in time for Talk Like a Pirate Day - and the anniversary of the day I became a published author! And it was films like The Sea Hawk, the quintessential classic swashbuckler, that set me on that path.
Ye lubbers may be able ta talk like a pirate...but in this classic video game, ye can plunder, treasure hunt, an' insult sword fight like one too!
In the words of Sir Anthony Hopkins, "there are many who would proudly wear the mask of Zorro." History has proven that to be true, but Douglas Fairbanks has the distinction of being the first.
(Originally posted on The Comics Bolt)
Riddle me this: what do you get when you cross one of my favorite superheroes with my favorite film/literary genre? Well well well...Talk Like a Pirate Day is upon us once again. And this year's review comes with a little bit of introspection, and the return of Tyrone Power to the INCspotlight.
(Originally posted on Channel Awesome on December 21, 2017)
I should have learned my lesson from The Crimson Pirate - when Burt Lancaster is the star of a swashbuckler, run away screaming. That being said, I went into The Flame and the Arrow thinking it would be just another bad post-World War II swashbuckler. I wasn't expecting it to piss me the **** off as much as it did. (Original version posted on Channel Awesome on July 12, 2017)
John Barrymore once again returns to the INCspotlight as one of the world's most infamous womanizers in Don Juan, a landmark of the soon-to-no-longer-be-silent cinema. (Originally posted on Channel Awesome on March 9, 2017)
Sir Francis Drake fights for queen and country in Seven Seas to Calais, another film that tries to recapture the magic of the Golden Age of swashbucklers. |
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