The medieval world wasn’t a tourist brochure of castles and courtly dances. It was raw, violent, often absurd, and deeply human. Picture muddy battlefields where armies clashed with swords that ...

Entertainment Weekly goes back to the Dark Ages. Christopher Smith’s devious plague thriller stars Eddie Redmayne as a monk recruited by a knight (Sean Bean) to lead a group of soldiers to a village ...

Ridley Scott's Crusades epic delivered exactly as you would expect in terms of epic visuals and large scale battles, despite a misfiring lead in the form of Orlando Bloom as a blacksmith-turned-knight ...

And so, with Hollywood having pillaged every other conceivable milieu for intellectual content – toys (“Transformers,” “G.I. Joe: Retaliation,” “Bratz ...