Excalibur

...en saga full av lust och lidelse som både skrämmer och fascinerar.

Shorn of much of the sentimentality of many Arthurian adaptations - First Knight, we mean you - this emphasises the blood, guts and magic of England's greatest ever monarch.

John Boorman, the director of “Excalibur,” is brilliant at staging the life and times of Arthur, the film is a triumph of production design, costumes, and special effects.

Excessive but occasionally inspired, EXCALIBUR gives us grimy lumbering knights, gloomy castles, slithering dragons, mesmerizing magic, and (of course) the struggle between good and evil.