• July 16, 2026
• Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, In Theaters

It was a little bit of a surprise when Christopher Nolan announced that his follow-up to his Oscar-winning Oppenheimer would be an adaptation of the O.G. epic story that...

• 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...

• August 19, 2016
• Action, At Home, Drama

Now, everyone will compare this film to the multiple-Oscar-winning 1957 epic Ben-Hur starring the majestic Charlton Heston (and his supporting cast of very white teeth). The truth is, this...

• November 20, 2014
• Action, Adventure, At Home, Fantasy

Hercules (Dwayne Johnson), half-man/half-god (or so we are told), is famous across ancient Greece for his amazing feats of strength and badassery. Still, he doesn’t want the accolades or...

• October 21, 2014
• Action, At Home, Fantasy

As the Gods watch from high above, Hyperion’s (Mickey Rourke) army cuts a warpath through Greece, fully intending to find and use the Epirus Bow to free the Titans...

• July 25, 2014
• Action, At Home, Drama

In this prequel/sequel/at-the-same-time-as-300-quel, we are introduced to hunky Athenian general Themistokles (Sullivan Stapleton). We learn in the opening scene that 10 years ago he gained a bit of a...

• May 20, 2014
• Action, At Home, Drama

Cheeseball disaster flicks are a category unto themselves. They are all about spectacle and special effects: Volcanoes go boom! Meteors hit major landmarks! The earth opens up and swallows...

• March 9, 2014
• Adventure, At Home, Drama

Apparently, as a kid, Frank Miller saw the 1962 swords-and-sandals epic The 300 Spartans, and it stuck in his impressionable craw. Fast forward a few decades, and pop culture’s...

• 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...

• February 8, 2014
• Action, At Home, Fantasy

I’ve thought Scotsman Gerard Butler was a manly-man hottie ever since seeing his sensitive yet swarthy self in movies such as Beowulf & Grendel, Dear Frankie, and, yes, even...

• November 1, 2006
• Action, Adventure, At Home

There are scenes in Gladiator that were directly lifted out of this Stanley Kubrick classic. The story of a slave who becomes a gladiator who becomes a general, and...

• February 23, 2005
• Action, Adventure, At Home

Wait a minute, nobody around here has reviewed Alexander yet?  Not one of us rushed right out to see Oliver Stone’s epic masterpiece?  No one even wanted to see...