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.” ...

Sir Ridley Scott certainly hopes the answer is “a lot,” based on the very sweaty, very bloody trailer for Gladiator II, the highly-anticipated upcoming sequel to his 2000 film about a bunch of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Every red-blooded American with a DVD player — and maybe even a few without — was out snapping up copies of just-released Aussie-hunk headliners Gladiator and X-Men.

Exhausted, decadent imperial decline prevails in maximalist sequel Gladiator II Both bad history and bad historical fiction, Ridley Scott's maximalism never replicates the charisma of Maximus.

Legendary Gladiators referee John Anderson has died aged 92. Former Gladiator Wolf is among those to have paid tribute to the late TV legend.

Gladiator II opens with a Roman fleet brutally laying siege to a city in the north African kingdom of Numidia. On the big screen we see ships set ablaze by pots of burning oil and defenders ...