It's a combination of all of my favourite things – fantasy, swords and sandals, swashbuckling fights, stop-motion skeletons – it's got everything I ever wanted as a 12-year-old boy in a film.
The problem with swords made of light is that, by its nature, light is massless – it will simply pass through other light like an appalling coward, instead of colliding with it with a satisfactory "bwwwooOOUumm-TSSSK". Scientists at the MIT Centre for Ultracold Atoms, in Massachusetts, recognise the problem of light's irritating pacifism and are taking important steps to correct it.
So you might cross swords or have cross words, But you might also cross your heart, and be grateful for the assistance from Red Cross if you've failed to follow the Green Cross code in crosstown traffic.
Klein, a close adviser to Murdoch who joined the News Corp board in November 2010 to run its fledgling education division, used to cross swords with the company's lawyers when he worked as assistant attorney general at the justice department.
iPhone / iPad Dungeon Hunter 5 (Free + IAP) If swords, monsters and dungeon-crawling are your thing, Dungeon Hunter 5 is well worth a look – as long as you're not harbouring fond memories of earlier games in this series that weren't freemium.
Japanese soldiers engaged in contests to slay the most Chinese with their swords, and gloated over reaching 100 kills.
Last year's ban resulted in several days of rioting in north and east Belfast with dozens of police officers being injured by loyalist demonstrators who attacked them with petrol bombs, blast bombs, bricks, bottles and ceremonial swords.
You walk into a village inn and it turns out the landlord sells swords.
Four junior naval officers in brilliant white uniforms stood guard with swords pointing downward.
Desert heists, scars, swords, scythes, drug dealers, a skeleton holding a gun – from the look of this poster, it's probably going to be a U certificate.
