The largest recorded naumachia came some years later. This reenactment of battle between the “Rhodians” and “Sicilians” was ...

As Gladiator 2 – or II to be more accurate – hits big screens around the country, the spectacle on display will be dropping a ...

When Roman soldiers invade the province, Lucius is forced into slavery and taken to Rome, where he becomes a gladiator. After ...

Ridley Scott had one directive for production designer Arthur Max on “Gladiator II”: “I want to go big. I want to imply the ...

A ship-to shore invasion with fleets of Roman battleships fighting with trebuchets and thousands of archers. A naval duel to ...

Where there was once Maximus, now there is Lucius. 20 years on and Rome is still in peril – here’s what goes down in the ...

But “Conclave” has the feel of the sort of highbrow picture that, over the years, has landed with Oscar voters. It has been a ...

Gladiator II 's debut Rotten Tomatoes rating is lower than the first movie. The sequel, which arrives in UK cinemas on ...

Gladiator II borrows so much from its predecessor it almost gives us the same film all over again, right down to inserting ...

Once again, Max was tasked with building Rome’s Colosseum set combining ... water tank for the close- ups of the battle and hand-to-hand combat on the ships. Max also points out that the face ...

There has been a path paved for him to the world of the sword-and-sandal epic with Gladiator II. Of course, considering ...