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First page of the story of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in the Pearl manuscript. Credit: British Library / Public domain / Wikimedia Commons His research into how medieval volumes were often ...
“The Alto Knights,” a crime thriller starring dueling Robert De Niros, made moviegoers an offer they easily refused. The Warner Bros. film was D.O.A. over the weekend with $3.2 million at the ...
In 2019, the film ended up being worthy of the legacy talk, as it’s an epic on a tier with De Niro’s best – but six years later, Barry Levinson’s The Alto Knights feels like a drop of ...
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It’s always a pleasure to see De Niro toast his rivals’ downfall. The Alto Knights seems to be aiming for an elegiac tone similar to that of The Irishman, nostalgically mourning both a lost ...
There’s a presumed weight and urgency to The Alto Knights, considering not only the talent involved, but the fact its story has been bouncing around Hollywood since the late Seventies ...
The new Age of Empires 4 expansion includes two iconic forces – the House of Lancaster (an alternative version of the English) and the Knights Templar (an adaptation of the French). The pair ...
“The Alto Knights” is steeped in Frank Costello’s mindset to a tedious extreme; it’s the last shot of “The Irishman” stretched out to 123 dramatically inert minutes of “haven’t we ...
MedievalMadness The Medieval Knight Who Wasn't So Noble Posted: March 19, 2025 | Last updated: March 19, 2025 The Craft and Cruelty of Sir John Hawkwood... English soldier and knight, condottiero ...
Snails wielding swords and fighting off knights. Elephants that look like ... These are part of a treasure trove of medieval animal illustrations that has taken the internet by storm.