W ith all due respect to Flash Gordon , there is only room in my heart for one maximalist 1980s movie blending science fiction, fantasy and romance with a banging Queen soundtrack. That film is Highlander , the stylised but strangely lofty 1986 wannabe blockbuster with a premise so ridiculous – immortals tussle throughout human history in a beheading battle royale – it is often deployed as a pop culture punchline. (In the Nascar comedy Talladega Nights: the Ballad of Ricky Bobby , Will Ferrell’s blowhard racer confidently asserts that Highlander won the Academy Award for “best movie ever made”.) ‘Nothing else quite like it’: why DEBS is my feelgood movie Read more

Even Highlander’s production history sounds like a mistranslated joke about national stereotypes walking into a b

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