gladiator

Notebook Reviews: GLADIATOR

Ridley Scott – 2000 Ridley Scott‘s Gladiator is a frustrating historical epic. It has some great sequences and impressive effects but there’s quite a bit of inertia in the storytelling. Russell Crowe delivers a muscular, [...]

August 2, 2021

Behind The Scenes: Michael Fassbender & Director Neil Marshall On The Set Of CENTURION

Neil Marshall’s Centurion is not for the faint-hearted. It’s an extremely violent and gory action film in which heads and limbs are removed by slashing swords and every body part that can be skewered, is. In fact, it’s almost too violent: [...]

January 25, 2021

Apple To Make Ridley Scott’s KITBAG; Joaquin Phoenix To Play Napoleon Bonaparte In The Historical Epic

Apple Studios is set to finance and produce Ridley Scott‘s Kitbag, a Napoleon Bonaparte biopic set to star Joaquin Phoenix. Deadline is reporting that Phoenix will reunite with his Gladiator director to play the French emperor and military [...]

January 14, 2021

Review: Russell Crowe Chews The Scenery In The Gritty & Violent UNHINGED

The first wide release in the United States (and pretty much the rest of the world), since the COVID-19 pandemic hit, director Derek Borte’s Unhinged arrives with much more fanfare than usually befits this type of film. A B-movie with an A-list [...]

August 20, 2020

Uncovering Curiosities: Cecil B. DeMille’s CLEOPATRA Starring Claudette Colbert

Cecil B. DeMille’s Cleopatra starring Claudette Colbert in the title roles is a luscious epic filled with opulent sets and costumes. The 1934 film was filmed just before the Hays Code came into play, and because of this DeMille’s film is a [...]

August 9, 2020

What We Do In Life Echoes In Eternity: Ridley Scott’s GLADIATOR At 20

Ridley Scott’s Gladiator has held-up well over the last 20 years. Russell Crowe delivered a muscular career-making performance in the 2000 historical epic, while Joaquin Phoenix gives a wonderfully squirmy performance as the villain of the [...]

May 19, 2020

Empire Magazine’s 100 Greatest Movies Of The Century Features A Lot Of Serious Duds

Taste is an interesting thing. Everyone is entitled to their opinion of course, but some people simply don’t have good taste. They’d rather eat at McDonalds than a good restaurant. This list of Empire Magazine’s 100 films of the [...]

January 18, 2020

Blu-ray Review: Michael Bay’s TRANSFORMERS: THE LAST KNIGHT Is Loud And Dumb

Transformers: The Last Knight is a bad film. I knew that from the outset having seen a couple of the other Transformers films (I keep popping back to the franchise for some cinematic sadomasochistic reason). The main flaw in this Michael Bay [...]

October 28, 2017

Book Review: THE ART AND MAKING OF PENNY DREADFUL

Not only have Frankenstein and Dracula been hugely influential pieces of literature but they’ve become iconic in the realm of film and television. Penny Dreadful (named after a type of 19th Century pulp fiction) sees them rub shoulders with Oscar [...]

March 30, 2015