Tuesday, September 28 2010
‘Spartacus’: There Will Be Blood, Lots of It
With all the slicing and cutting and loss of bodily fluids, Spartacus would seem to be a prime candidate for criticism about its excessive violence, but its stylized approach to violence makes for unconventional, provocative programming.
Thursday, February 19 2009
Hollywood’s Ancient Worlds by Jeffrey Richards
It’s a truism that period movies are never about the time in which they were set, but about the time in which they were made, and Richards finds this particularly true of the ancient world epic.
Friday, September 23 2005
Gladiator: Extended Edition (2000)
It's a bad sign for your making-of doc when the most interesting folks to listen to are the studio weasels.
