Kneel Before Pod – Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves (246)

After months of adventuring, a brave party returns from seeing Honor Among Thieves to discuss the film – but with a twist, as their own dungeon adventure is captured here: classes show off their skills, D20s are rolled and one party member reveals his willingness to sell his soul for early access and swag, all on the way to defeating the most-heinous of all villains in the realms of storytelling (in the Dungeon Master’s opinion at least).

On their way to victory, they also discuss story that has heart, a potentially-successful application of current gender politics and their collective delight at finding a good fantasy film among the wilderness of today’s offerings – oh, and a film adaptation of a game that actually works…? Madness!

10 Best Movies of 2017

I’ve given you my worst of the year list so I’ll end the year on a positive note with the best. 2017 was another year of change for Kneel Before Blog. The biggest change was that we switched to a star rating system for film around halfway through the year. TV will continue to be…

Paddington 2

The lovably accident prone bear with good manners and a heart of gold returns for another cinematic outing in Paul King’s Paddington 2. Paddington’s first cinematic outing was such a joy to watch that I’ll admit I was eagerly anticipating a second instalment. Everything about the first film fit together neatly and the end result…

The Man from U.N.C.L.E

Guy Ritchie’s The Man from U.N.C.L.E. offers audiences a slick reinvention of the 60s spy series for the big screen. I’ll start by saying that I have no familiarity with The Man from U.N.C.L.E. TV series so I can only really look at this as a spy movie. I’m aware that the show existed but…

On the Silver Screen – The Rewrite

Hugh Grant stars as Keith Michaels in The Rewrite, the story of a form award winning screenwriter who is forced to accept a teaching position to pay the bills when he has no luck finding work as a screenwriter. A film about screenwriting should tread carefully as it will ultimately be laughed at for not…