Casey Chong on the best sword-and-sandal movies of the 21st century…With Ridley Scott returning to Ancient Rome this month in the long-gestating sequel Gladiator II [read our review here], it looks as if the sword-and-sandals epic is making yet another comeback. The last time the genre made a splash, for better or worse, was in […]
10 filmmakers who went from Indie Darling to Big Budget Blunder
In the wake of Josh Trank’s Fantastic Four, Matthew Lee looks at ten filmmakers who went from Indie Darling to Big Budget Blunder…Josh Trank’s debut, Chronicle, was a surprise hit of 2012. The film fused the found-footage genre with superhero tropes to create a coming-of-age story that was both fresh and exciting. Trank’s ability to […]
The most pirated movies of 2014
As 2014 draws to a close, Excipio has posted the list of the 20 most pirated movies of the year, with Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street narrowly edging out Disney’s blockbuster animation Frozen with more than 30 million illegal downloads over the past twelve months. Via Variety, here’s a list of the top […]
