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Tag Archives: adventure
S.E. Hinton’s Hawkes Harbour
S.E. Hinton has had an interesting career. She sold her first (and subsequently most well known) novel The Outsiders, when she was only 17. That was in 1967. In the years since, her career has been punctuated by long breaks … Continue reading
Michael Curtiz’s The Sea Hawk
It may be hard for some to believe, but Pirates of the Caribbean notwithstanding, the pirate movie genre wasn’t always as moribund as it is today. Tall ships with billowed sail pursuing each other through the seas, blazing cannons, swashbuckling … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, historical drama, pirates
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Gore Verbinski’s Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Norrington: “You are without a doubt the worst pirate I’ve ever heard of. Jack Sparrow: “But you have heard of me.” Yo ho, yo ho, the pirate’s life for me. From Errol Flynn sailing the high seas to Cary Elwes … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, fantasy, pirates, The Princess Bride
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Rob Reiner’s The Princess Bride
L.G. Burnett wrote this review. Envision a film with Billy Crystal, Carol Kane, Peter Falk, and Peter Cook that is absolutely hilarious, yet none of them appear in the lead roles. “Inconceivable!,” you cry and I reply, “I do not … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, contemporary fantasy, pirates
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Kerry Conran’s Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
This review was written by Rebecca Scott. The hype began months ago. The first I knew of it was the full-page ads in my monthly comics. Then I caught the teaser on Apple’s site. The concept caught me immediately: a … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, pulp, science fiction
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Kerry Conran’s Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
I’m not sure when or where I first ran across Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, but it has become one of my favorite “something to watch when I’m just up for some light entertainment” movies. (This is not … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, pulp, science fiction
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Edgar Pangborn’s Davy
Edgar Pangborn is one of those early science fiction writers who has been a very quiet legend for decades. Most happily, Old Earth Books some years back undertook to reissue his novels, for which all of us can be very … Continue reading