The gladiator trainer Proximo (Oliver Reed) says, “Ultimately, we are all dead men. Sadly, we cannot choose how. But we can decide how we meet that end, in order that we are remembered as men.” ...

As The Guardian’s Barbara Ellen opined upon the original Gladiator film’s release in 2000, “Like Top Gun with togas, Gladiator has that special brand of homoeroticism that’s deemed good ...

I was thinking a lot about men while watching Gladiator II last week, and so, it seemed, was everyone else. In the woozy, shell-shocked aftermath of the presidential election, as everyone ...

A product of our era of legacy sequels and zombified intellectual properties, Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II sets out to one-up its fondly remembered predecessor with more grandiose set pieces ...

For a modern audience, it’s tempting to valorize the Roman gladiator — strong, brave, fierce — as a masculine ideal. Indeed, ancient Rome has become for many young men an exemplar of a ...

Gladiator, X-Men Set DVD Records. By ABC News. November 28, 2000, 8:17 PM. Nov. 28 -- Whoa! Look out, Neo! Here ...

Just last year, the internet was mightily bemused by the discovery that many men are low-key obsessed with the Roman Empire.Decades after Gladiator swept the Oscars, Ridley Scott is back with the ...