ROME (2005) – HBO’S CINEMATIC MASTERPIECE THAT IS YET TO BE OUTDONE
More than two decades after it premiered, HBO’s Rome has still not been matched, and that should embarrass everyone who has tried since. Studios have thrown nine-figure budgets and an ocean of pixels at the swords-and-sandals genre, and none of it has produced an ancient world as filthy, loud and lived-in as the one this…
HUNGRY (2026) – A PERFECTLY WATCHABLE HIPPO MOVIE THAT WILL NEVER BE ANYONE’S CULT FAVORITE
A killer hippo sounds like a joke, and the tagline, “This hippo isn’t playing games,” winks at the board game you’re already thinking of. Then the film refuses to wink back. Hungry lets a hippo loose in the Louisiana bayou, plays the whole thing with a completely straight face, and delivers 92 minutes that are…
THE ODYSSEY (2026) — CHRISTOPHER NOLAN GOES GREEK, AND FORGETS TO BRING THE MYTH
Christopher Nolan doesn’t do small. He shot an entire war epic on IMAX 70mm film, dragged an A-list ensemble across the Peloponnese, and slapped a $250 million budget on top of Homer’s 2,700-year-old poem. On paper, that’s the kind of ambition I want to see rewarded. In practice, The Odyssey is a film that looks…
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