Ridley Scott has revealed why the emperors in his films all tend to be a bit unstable – turns out it’s all the lead in their water pipes. Scott’s recent directorial venture Gladiator 2 stars Joseph ...

The following contains spoilers for Gladiator 2, now playing in theatersGladiator 2's line of Emperors ends up being a major ...

Gladiator is about a general-turned-gladiator named Maximus (Russell Crowe), who was created just for the film. He is likely a fictionalized combination of the historical general Marcus Nonius ...

Warning: This post contains spoilers for Gladiator II. Some contemporary accounts suggest that they did some scheming. “In one of the sources, it even says that they had a plan to split the Empire in ...

Visitors to the Colosseum in Rome can now walk through a tunnel that even in Roman times was exclusively reserved for emperors ...

Francis Ford Coppola is joining the Roman Empire TikTok trend by asking himself the viral question: “How often do you think about the Roman Empire?” “How often do I think of Ancient Rome? Quite a lot, ...

The “Gladiator” sequel centers on Lucius Verus, the secret son of Russell Crowe’s character from the 2000 film. Both men achieve fame as enslaved fighters driven by their desire for revenge Paul ...

An even longer cut overseen by Thomas Negovan restores scenes once scrapped in favor of pornographic material, but fails to repair the foundational folly of Bob Guccione's debauched Roman epic. More a ...