What’s Your Favorite Fantasy Sword?
Everyone loves Excalibur; I mean it’s the sword of swords! One land, one King! And all that jazz. I could sit here and talk about all the times I drew what I thought Excalibur looked like on my folders...
View ArticleUnicorn City
Last week, I had the privilege of attending the Philadelphia Comic Con with my dad. While a smaller convention than the better-known ones at Chicago, San Diego, and New York, the Philadelphia Comic Con...
View ArticleMovie Adaptations: Is the film version ever allowed to best the novel?
Up until a few years ago I was one of many book lovers who firmly believed it’s virtually impossible for a film adaptation to be better than the novel it’s based on. Obviously it’s impossible to...
View ArticleReviews of SF/F Movies 2011
Well, working for Fantasy-Faction is a tough, tough job. Not only do I have to read tons upon tons of fantasy novels, but I also made a pledge to play more video games and watch more movies… Yes, I bet...
View ArticleConan the Barbarian (2011)
I’d like to go on record saying something very important: I love Conan. Conan is the archetypal fantasy loner. A brooding, savage warrior with great intelligence and charisma to match his muscles, who...
View ArticleOur Top Scary Movies For Halloween 2011
We here at Fantasy-Faction are getting excited about the coming Halloween celebrations and figure that there is no better way to get yourself in the mood for Halloween than with a scary movie. But what...
View ArticleNight of the Living Dead – 1968 Version
With week five of the Month of the Living Dead, we come to the climax of not only our celebration of the undead, but of the month itself on that most appropriate of days: October 31st. Call it...
View ArticleMistborn Movie Trailer
Brandon Sanderson is looking for help and because we at Fantasy-Faction love Mr. Sanderson and his work – we are going to ask our readers to give it to him. Basically, Brandon Sanderson believes...
View ArticleThe Avengers Assemble Review
Well, The Avengers has just topped the American box office for a third week running, so I figured it’s probably about time we wade in and give it a review. First of all, I must begin with an important...
View ArticleWhy Is Fantasy So Popular In 2012?
The past few years have been very good for fans of fantasy. We can find more books, movies, and TV shows catering to our interests than possibly ever before. It’s wonderful, but I often find myself...
View ArticleThe Hunger Games Movie Review
When a novel (or in this case, a series of novels) gain enough recognition, fame, and merchandise to warrant a film adaptation, there is always a mixed bag of reactions that go along with it. General...
View ArticlePainting With Grey: The Development and Popularity of “Gritty Fantasy”
In the last ten years, the fantasy community has seen an upsurge in the popularity of so-called “gritty fantasy”. However, this sub-genre of fantasy is evident even earlier than this. George R. R....
View ArticleFaerie-Tales: The New “Thing” in Fantasy Entertainment
First it was vampires and then it was zombies. Now it’s faerie-tales. What will the next fad be? Necrophilia and bestiality? Supernatural teen pregnancy? Oh, wait. I forgot. Twilight already did both....
View ArticleForms Of Fantasy
I haven’t written an article for Fantasy-Faction in a while and so, I thought I’d better start by saying something interesting. “As a fantasy/science-fiction fan you are deeply nostalgic and/or...
View ArticleDredd 3D Review
Outside the city walls is the Cursed Earth, the irradiated desert world, and inside is an equally unwelcoming urban rash of slum and decay, where concrete rules and kilometre tall tenements polka-dot...
View ArticleDisaster Advice from Science Fiction and Fantasy
Natural disasters are something that all of us live with regardless of location. Hurricanes, droughts, wildfires, earthquakes, volcanoes, tornadoes…it’s a really long list of the things that could go...
View ArticleReboots vs. Revisions
The genres of fantasy and science fiction, by their very nature, are ripe for remakes, reboots and reimaginings. Core stories about heroes and their journeys might remain unchanged, as ancient as...
View ArticleThe Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
At 24fps, and in two easy-on-the-eyes dimensions, Peter Jackson’s first installment of The Hobbit is simply a movie, as opposed to an experience. It is a good movie, at that. But is it great? No. The...
View ArticleThe Top Six Nerdy, Fantasy-Related Things That You Can Try When You’re Not In...
I’m a high school English teacher by day—fantasy freak by night. If I were to include a list of all of the fantasy authors that I love, or a list of my favorite fantasy novels—well—it would be quite...
View ArticleOblivion – Spoiler Free Movie Review
Oblivion, despite a marketing push to the contrary, is unequivocally not a “Tom Cruise” movie. Sure, the trailer was debuted months ahead of time during a high profile Super Bowl ad. And sure, Tom...
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