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Ah, the stories of Japanese skill with swords and their style of fighting has reached epic proportions in film and literature hasn't it? Like most things, some of the hype is warranted, but much of it isn't. Tall tales have simply grown taller in the retelling.Individual skill with the sword reached its greatest period in Japan after the Tokugawa Shogunate was established in the early 17th century. Ironically, this was a peaceful period that saw...

Do you like movies, TV and reading a good story? We do too, and the chances are you came across the genre of science fiction in at least some of those stories. It may still be unofficial, but National Science Fiction Day on January 2nd is the perfect day to celebrate the amazing worlds opened to us through Sci-fi.Sci-fi has produced aliens that terrify like Predator and those that can tug at our heartstrings like E.T. Can zoom us to different pla...

You wouldn't think a Cimmerian would be so quotable, but Conan and his cohorts have proven us wrong. Our amazing prop replicas from the classic film aren't the only memorable things coming from this awesome property. You might not know there have been three big budget movies featuring the warring barbarian to date. Conan the Barbarian was released in 1982, which was followed by a sequel, Conan the Destroyer in 1986. Of course each starred one o...