How’s this for a Hollywood concept: Working-class hero and champion of the proletariat turns out to be a backwoods berserker whose ax-wielding siren of a wife has visions of blood? All right, that’s ...

Ron Evangelista is a writer with a burning passion for movies. He became enamored with films at a very young age when his father tirelessly watched them with him in a small apartment in Makati City, ...

Spartacus lived 109-71 B.C. and is one of those characters from the ancient world who, like Julius Caesar and Alexander the Great, continues to capture the imagination of modern film-goers. Although ...

The world wide success of the film Gladiator has generated a renewed interested in Ancient Rome and the role of gladiators. Any inquiry into this question has to raise the spectre of the slave war ...