• November 20, 2024
• Action, Adventure, At Home, Drama

Since so many modern men apparently think about the Roman Empire “every day,” it seems only appropriate for director Ridley Scott to revisit the world of his massively-successful, Oscar-winning...

• July 9, 2024
• Moviepie Musings

Along with the debut of the new trailer for Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II, due in theaters November 22, 2024, Paramount Pictures has also released a slew of great character...

• July 9, 2024
• Moviepie Musings

Denzel Washington as the puppet-master with loads of power? Paul Mescal as the gladiator with vengeance? Pedro Pascal as the general destined to cross our hero in the arena?...

• November 22, 2023
• At Home, Drama, War

Ridley Scott’s take on France’s tiniest tyrant is a head-scratching epic that intersperses fantastic battle scenes with a bizarre lead performance by Joaquin Phoenix as the dictator. Never trying...

• July 10, 2023
• Moviepie Musings

Ridley Scott’s Gladiator made Joaquin Phoenix a bonafide star with his scene-stealing turn as the ruthless Commodus, so there has been great anticipation to see what this director/actor duo...

• January 27, 2018
• At Home, Science Fiction

When director Ridley Scott revisited his Alien universe for the first time in over 30 years with 2012’s Prometheus, he apparently had been collecting ideas in his head for...

• October 17, 2015
• At Home, Science Fiction

If you ever thought that after high school there was no practical use for algebra, like EVER… well, just be glad that you aren’t stuck on Mars without a...

• March 6, 2014
• Action, Adventure, At Home, Drama

This is an Epic with a capital “E”, that’s for sure. Swords, and tigers, and blood, oh my! Actually, a lot of blood. Muddy armies hacking each other to...

• September 24, 2012
• At Home, Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller

I remember hearing some quote a decade or so ago where Robert Plant said that Led Zeppelin should never reunite, because after all that time they’d basically be a...

• February 3, 2010
• At Home, Crime, Drama

It’s beefy, both in running time and content, and filled from open to close with bad guys, good buys, flying bullets, violence, drugs, murder, chase sequences and some stellar...

• February 1, 2010
• At Home, Comedy, Drama, Romance

Even more surprising is that the film is helmed by big-budget tough guy Ridley Scott, who last teamed with Crowe for the decidedly less-genteel Gladiator. Based on the book...

• May 6, 2005
• Action, Adventure, At Home, Drama

I’m fairly certain that all my history and religion teachers from high school would heave a sigh of frustration that I remember precious little about the Crusades. I mean,...