Gladiator 2
Sixteen years since Maximus Decimus Meridius set Rome free, tyranny reins again and a new gladiator steps into the ring to shake off the shackles of oppression. This time it’s […]
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Gladiator
Betrayed by the conniving Emperor Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix), Roman general Maximus Decimus Meridius (Russell Crowe) is sold into glad rags like Ben-Hur, Spartacus, Conan the Barbarian and Anakin Skywalker before him. […]
Troy
Das Boot director Wolfgang Petersen swaps the boots for sandals in this 2004 epic based on Homer’s Iliad but closer in quality to that Carol Ann Duffy poem about David Beckham. […]
Pompeii
We continue our masochistic foray into the world of Paul W. S. Anderson with Pompeii, his 2014 action spectacular that can best be described as a malodorous eruption. More disaster than movie, […]
The Talented Mr. Ripley
We look back on The Talented Mr. Ripley to celebrate Gwyneth’s Paltrow’s engagement, which she’s been plugging profusely on Goop. She’s always plugging something profusely. But sadly never her mouth. Appropriately enough, this […]
Traffic
This is not a biopic of psychedelic rock band Traffic, but it does feature a lot of drug use. Steven Soderbergh’s Traffic has the distinction of going up against another Soderbergh movie, Erin Brockovich, for the Best Picture Oscar […]
How Not to Make a Revenge Film
Revenge is one of the great plot drivers. If a character has been harmed we are far more lenient in accepting behaviour that would otherwise be unacceptable. A good revenge […]
Blog: SHOUTING!
I believe it was Lulu who said “Weeeeeeeeeeell…you know you make me wanna shout.” Shouting can vent anger, assert authority and assist the hard of hearing. When someone shouts you […]
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