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Director Guido Malatesta’s 1964 period action adventure drama Revolt of the Barbarians [La Rivolta dei Barbari] is a very moderate Italian sword and sandal epic, in which a Roman consul goes to Gaul to investigate […]
Michael Fassbender’s Centurion Quintus Dias, Dominic West’s General Titus Flavius Virilus and a bunch of Roman Centurions of the legendary Ninth Legion are over here in the good old Britain of 117AD, where life is nasty, […]
Joseph L Mankiewicz’s fine 1953 Hollywood film of Shakespeare’s Roman play Julius Caesar assembles a grand line-up of real actors in John Gielgud, Marlon Brando, James Mason, Louis Calhern and Edmond O’Brien. Writer-director Joseph L […]
And 2014 brings Paul W.S. Anderson’s movie Pompeii. It opened in America on 24 February 2014 to poor reviews and did poor business, costing $100million and taking only $23million in America. Its UK opening was on […]
Co-writer/co-producer/director Mel Gibson’s 2004 biblical epic is a totally gruelling but ultimately uplifting and thought-provoking religious experience. Jim Caviezel is the noble embodiment of Jesus Christ, betrayed in the Garden of Gethsemane then tortured in […]
Director Antoine Fuqua’s 2004 movie stars Clive Owen, who looks glum as an Anglo-Roman Artorius (or King Arthur) in this entertainingly silly Hollywood attempt to prove that the legend actually happened – back in the Dark […]
‘The Fiery Summit of Spectacle as the Screen is Swept by Scenes That Stagger the Imagination!’ Director Mario Bonnard and Sergio Leone’s 1959 movie (aka originally Gli Ultimi Giorni di Pompeii) is an engaging Italian historical […]