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Daily Archives: September 9, 2026
Movie Review: A Legend of the Steppes Gives the Mongols What For — “Rise of the Conqueror”
A Danish American bit-player rolls the dice as star and co-writer of a big-screen Medieval combat period piece in “Rise of the Conqueror,” a good looking but strained bit of mid-Mongol Empire history shot where all of this really happened … Continue reading
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