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. […]
Napoleon (2023)
Since we had the distinction of watching Napoleon at Waterloo, it joins the ranks of Isle of Dogs (which we saw on the Isle of Dogs), Threads (which we saw […]
Alien
Few films are as influential and more pointless to review than Alien; by this point trying to say anything new about the 1979 classic is the critical equivalent of screaming […]
Thelma & Louise
Two Southern redheads (Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon) go on the run after shooting a rapist in this 1991 road movie. Remember roads? One of the best films of the ’90s, […]
Legend (1985)
A young Tom Cruise stars in this largely forgotten fantasy flop ironically titled Legend. Bringing an abrupt halt to Ridley Scott’s early run of classics (The Duellists, Alien and Blade […]
Kingdom of Heaven
When a blacksmith (Orlando Bloom) discovers he is the son of a knight (Liam Neeson), he goes to Jerusalem to continue his father’s legacy. There he finds a land torn […]
All the Money in the World
All the Money in the World stars Christopher Plummer as Kevin Spacey as Mr. Burns as J. Paul Getty, the richest man in the world. Refusing to pay the ransom for his […]
Blade Runner: 2049
It’s thirty years after Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) and Rachael (Sean Young) drove off into the sunset or awkwardly began their origami business together in a dingy apartment block, depending […]
Exodus: Gods and Kings
Set a couple of hundred years after Darren Aronofsky’s Noah, Exodus follows Moses, the adoptive son of the Pharaoh of Egypt, where the Jews are enslaved. But Moses has an […]
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