Tag Archives: Historical epic

I was gonna start the article with my customary “Here we go again”. But guess what? Spartacus has already been remade recently. Not as a motion picture though. “Spartacus: Blood And Sand” is an ongoing Starz TV series with Andy Whitfield and then Liam McIntyre (Season 2) in the role Kirk Douglas immortalised. I’ve notContinue Reading

“Cinema Paradiso” is one of my favourite films of all time. More than just a classic, it is a beautiful work of art about the glorious power of cinema. If you have not watched it, you owe it to yourself to do so before you die. It’s directed by Italian Giuseppe Tornatore, who also didContinue Reading

Keanu Reeves isn’t exactly a versatile actor. There are only certain types of roles and genres that he can convincingly pull off. He plays stoic and introspective pretty well. What he doesn’t do so well are foreigners in period settings. For example, Keanu as Englishman Jonathan Harker in the Francis Ford Coppola version of “Bram’sContinue Reading