Category: gladiator

Popcorn and Inspiration: ‘Gladiator’: Ridley Scott’s Epic Period Masterpiece

R | 2h 35min | Drama, Action, Historical Fiction | 5 May 2000 (USA) While it’s been around since the dawn of the film medium itself, the historical “Sword-and-Sandal” (S&S) sub-genre enjoyed its heyday from 1949 through 1965 in the form of frequently religious-based big-budget period epics. Notable “S&S” standouts of this period include “Samson and Delilah,” “Quo Vadis,” “The Robe,” “The…


‘What We Do in Life Echoes in Eternity:’ Embracing the Arena

“Nothing in life,” Winston Churchill once wrote, “is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.” Though I’m a Churchill fan, and though no one’s ever shot at me with or without result, here I must disagree with him. Falling in love, and having that person love you, is surely exhilarating. An inheritance of…