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Cinema of Swords

A Popular Guide to Movies about Knights, Pirates, Samurai, and Vikings (And Barbarians, Musketeers, Gladiators, and Outlaw Heroes)

By Lawrence Ellsworth

Welcome to the Cinema of Swords Substack! This series is a companion and expansion to my Cinema of Swords hardcover (Applause Books, 2023), which collects over 400 tasty mini-reviews of screen swashbucklers from the Silent Era through The Princess Bride.

This Substack builds on that foundation, continuing forward with reviews of swordplay movies and TV shows from the ‘90s to the present. Every week I’ll present two to four illustrated reviews on a common theme written both to inform and to entertain.

If you enjoyed the contents of the book, this weekly series will give you plenty more of the same. (And if you haven’t seen the book, look for it from wherever you do your book shopping!)

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Subscribe to Cinema of Swords

Welcome to Cinema of Swords! This series is a companion and expansion to my Cinema of Swords hardcover, which collects mini-reviews of screen swashbucklers. Every week I’ll present here two to four illustrated reviews on a common theme.

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Lawrence Ellsworth

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Author, editor, translator, and anthologist of historical adventure fiction, Lawrence Ellsworth is the author of Cinema of Swords, and is compiling an acclaimed series of new, contemporary translations of Alexandre Dumas's Musketeers novels.