Sherwood Week: Sheriff don't like it

ROBIN HOOD: PRINCE OF THIEVES

1991

Directed by Kevin Reynolds

Written by Pen Densham and John Watson

Spoilers: inapplicable, really

Sherwood Week: He's not the Marian kind

ROBIN AND MARIAN

1976

Directed by Richard Lester

Written by James Goldman

Spoilers: moderate shifting pretty immediately into severe, and I guess you could feel deceived that I said it was ever "moderate"

Sherwood Week: Grinning and baron it

THE BANDIT OF SHERWOOD FOREST

1946

Directed by Henry Levin and George Sherman

Written by Wilfred H. Pettitt and Melvin Levy

THE SON OF ROBIN HOOD

1958

Directed by George Sherman

Written by George S. Slavin and George W. George (no, really)

Spoilers for either: moderate

Sherwood Week: This saucy fellow

THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD

1938

Directed by Michael Curtiz and William Keighley

Written by Rowland Leigh, Norman Reilly Raine, and Seton I. Miller

Spoilers: N/A

Hamlet's bogus journey

SCARLET

2025

Written and directed by Mamoru Hosoda

Spoilers: moderate

Just what is going on in that piratical mind of yours?

THE SEA HAWK

1940

Directed by Michael Curtiz

Written by Howard Koch and Seton I. Miller

Spoilers: moderate

Better a thousand times to die than for to live so tormented: dear, but remember it was I who for thy sake did die contented

THE PRIVATE LIVES OF ELIZABETH AND ESSEX

1939

Directed by Michael Curtiz

Written by Norman Reilly Raine and Aeneas MacKenzie (based on the play Elizabeth the Queen by Maxwell Anderson)

Spoilers: welllll, how familiar are you with the reign of Elizabeth I?

No, you look like me, which is interesting, if rather impertinent

CROSSED SWORDS

aka The Prince and the Pauper

1977 UK/1978 USA

Directed by Richard Fleischer

Written by Berta Dominguez, Pierre Spengler, and George MacDonald Fraser (based on the novel by Mark Twain)

Spoilers: moderate

Walt Disney, part LXXXIII: Failure, then learning, then death

MOANA 2

2024

Directed by Jason Hand, Dana Ledoux Miller, and David Derrick Jr.

Written by Jared Bush, Bryson Chun, Bek Smith, and Dana Ledoux Miller

Spoilers: moderate

Note that will eventually be removed: "part 83" is an approximate one, but it is where I believe this film will eventually fall once my not-so-diligently pursued retrospective catalog of Walt Disney animation is done sometime in the next couple of months; meanwhile, since I intended to be done with it before Moana 2 came out on streaming, even if I did not succeed in doing so, it's still best to treat it as just another entry in that series, something I've been sub rosa doing with all of Disney's new-release cartoons for the past two or three years anyhow

There is nothing so ruinous to good character as to idle away one's time at some spectacle

GLADIATOR II

2024

Directed by Ridley Scott

Written by Peter Craig and David Scarpa

Spoilers: moderate (arguably high, but not if you've seen the first three minutes of the movie, I'd think)

Walt Disney, part LXI: Not even your average bear

BROTHER BEAR

2003

Directed by Aaron Blaise and Robert Walker

Written by Tab Murphy and the rest of WDFA, I guess, based on an "idea" by Michael Eisner

Spoilers: moderate

Walt Disney, part LVII: His groove! The rhythm by which he lives his life, his pattern of behavior—I threw it off!

THE EMPEROR'S NEW GROOVE

2000

Directed by Mark Dindal

Written by David Reynolds, Chris Williams, and Mark Dindal

Spoilers: moderate

They love whom they penalize; they bring into disrepute whom they applaud; they extol the art, and brand the artist with disgrace

GLADIATOR

2000

Directed by Ridley Scott

Written by David Franzoni, John Logan, and William Nicholson

Spoilers: severe

Walt Disney, part LII: The buck bounds here and there, whilst the doe has narrow eyes, but when the two hares run side by side, how can you tell the female from the male?

MULAN

1998

Directed by Barry Cook and Tony Bancroft

Written by Rita Hsaio, Chris Sanders, Philip LaZebnik, Raymond Singer, Eugenia Bostwick-Singer, and Robert D. San Souci

Spoilers: high

Walt Disney, part ΔΔΔΔΔI: You swoon, you sigh, why deny it, uh-oh

HERCULES

1997

Directed by Ron Clements and John Musker

Written by Donald McEnery, Bob Shaw, Irene Mecchi, Ron Clements, and John Musker, et al

Spoilers: severe

Walt Disney, part XLIII: You ain't never had a friend like me

ALADDIN

1992

Directed by Ron Clements and John Musker

Written by Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Ron Clements, John Musker, and what appears to be the entire staff of Walt Disney Feature Animation

Spoilers: moderate

American Gothic Week: The discovery of witches

WITCHFINDER GENERAL

aka The Conqueror Worm aka Matthew Hopkins: Witchfinder General

1968

Directed by Michael Reeves

Written by Tom Baker and Michael Reeves

Spoilers: moderate

Ill-disposed in brawl ridiculous, the name of Agincourt

HENRY V

1989

Written and directed by Kenneth Branagh (based on the play The Life of Henry the Fifth by William Shakespeare)

Spoilers: N/A (why's there no play about the Siege of Orléans?)

What in the world could make a river red turn blue?

FULL RIVER RED

2023

Directed by Zhang Yimou

Written by Chen Yu and Zhang Yimou

Spoilers: moderate

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety

CLEOPATRA

1963

Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Written by Ranald MacDougall, Sidney Buchman, and Joseph L. Mankiewicz (based on The Life and Times of Cleopatra by Carlo Maria Franzero, plus Plutarch and that whole gang)

Spoilers: N/A