Luke Skywalker's well publicized exploits on the Death Star were such a spectacular success that there was an air of inevitability when other Hollywood studios tried to make a "Star Wars" of their own ...

The Glaive is such an important plot device in Krull. It featured on pretty much all of the promotional art, posters and everything else going. And to be fair, it does look pretty sweet, as weapons go ...

Kumail Nanjiani is, at long last, ready to talk. He is, after all these years, finally* breaking his silence. It’s here, today, that he throws caution to the wind and speaks openly and candidly about ...

Not only that, but it became the subject for a couple of video games that actually weren’t half bad as far as movie-licensed fare for the time goes. Let’s take a look back now at the two games that ...

How can you remain objective about a film you enjoyed so much as a youngster? The answer, of course, is that you can’t. And it’s true that, when viewed in 2011, the influences of 80s fantasy film, ...

The late Peter Yates' 1983 fantasy epic "Krull" is a fascinatingly strange bouillabaisse of ideas. Like "He-Man and the Masters of the Universe," it blends medieval wizardry with high-tech science ...

For every good fantasy film, there are at least a dozen imitators that turned in some cheap sword-and-sandal mockery, shot out in the deserts of Spain or Italy, with actors wearing ridiculous get-ups ...

Sci fi guns have a distinct advantage in how believable they are over hand to hand weapons. A gun is just a metal tube filled with gunpowder that shoots small slabs of metal fast enough to punch a ...

Forty years on, "Krull" remains a flawed – but intriguing – effort to cash in on George Lucas's galaxy far, far away. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.