When deciding on a movie for this week’s Sleeper Cell, I couldn’t choose between David LaChapelle’s gritty urban documentary of South Central hip hop dancers Rize and David Cronenberg’s 1999 whacked out sci-fi thriller eXistenZ. So I’m cheating by going totally off the board and selecting a live recording of a London dramatic performance! In [...]
The Clash of the Titans is one of those movies that makes you think, “This is why we invented movies.” We open on a Greek beach with Acrisius, the king of the island of Argos sentencing his only daughter Danae to death along with her illegitimate son in a very James Bond bad-guy fashion- with [...]
Editor’s note- it was not my intention to review this film for this week’s Retro Review. Not that I have any issue with Spartacus, but I watched it nearly three weeks ago and never really planned to write anything about it. As such, this review may be a bit of a mess. Unfortunately, Netflix Instant Queue decided that I could only watch American Ninja one minute at a time before it would have to pause and buffer further. After the first 20 minutes had taken nearly 40, I gave up.
So here we are with the film I didn’t want to review, Spartacus. In the realm of gigantic movies, Spartacus must have seemed out of this world at the time of it’s release. The opening sequences in Libya, filled with seemingly thousands of slaves showcases a detail that’s covered up by digital effects in the modern era of cinema.
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