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  • Movies for Gamers Who Like Movies:  Hawk the Slayer

    Movies for Gamers Who Like Movies: Hawk the Slayer

    Title: Hawk the Slayer Directed by: Terry Marcel Genre: Sword & Sorcery I read (and until recently subscribed to) “Knights of the Dinner Table” gaming magazine. It was there that I first heard of this film. I’d never seen it before or heard of it. Yet when I asked my friends they almost universally said […]

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  • Movies for Gamers Who Like Movies:  Deathstalker II – Duel of the Titans

    Movies for Gamers Who Like Movies: Deathstalker II – Duel of the Titans

    The plot is that a princess has been had a portion of her soul magically split off from her body and transformed into a Doppelganger. The “good” half has escaped and now ragged and penniless, seeks help to regain her throne. Deathstalker, the notorious thief and ne’er-do-well is convinced by the good half of the princess to assault her fortress and defeat the evil sorcerer who did this to her.

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  • The Best 45 Minute Movies Ever Made:  Matrix Revolutions

    The Best 45 Minute Movies Ever Made: Matrix Revolutions

    Well, okay, not all of these would make for great cinema. I mean, virtue vs. vice? Who wants to see the embodiment of patience take on an avatar of smoking?

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  • The Best 45 Minute Movies Ever Made:  Full Metal Jacket

    The Best 45 Minute Movies Ever Made: Full Metal Jacket

    Like so many of the movies on this list, this film’s strength lies in its first half. Stanley Kubrick’s observations about the horrors of human conflict (this bloody commentary on the Vietnam War predates Spielberg’s remarkable Saving Private Ryan by a decade and a half) begins in the seemingly much tamer world of marine boot camp.

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