The acclaimed romantic “horror” movie Ghost is a prime example of a film in which the main character is dead for the majority of the story. Sam Wheat ( Patrick Swayze) is murdered about 20 minutes in, ...

Is Donald Trump Channeling Liz Truss and Chairman Mao? His tariffs are best understood as a historically significant lesson ...

True, he actually wasn’t stabbed to death in the ring by a hunky gladiator, but his demise was no less theatrical: Commodus’ dissolute reign was cut short in A.D. 192 when, after several ...

Movies are filled with great and creepy villains. Wicked characters who, even if we cannot root for, we grow fond of. We might be repelled by their moral compass, but their charisma and wit make them ...

Set 20 years after the events of the original Gladiator—which culminated in the death of the film’s protagonist, Maximus, and its main villain, Commodus—Gladiator II centres on Lucius (Paul ...

He fights for one purpose: to return to Rome, exact his revenge on Commodus and restore Rome to ... effort to lead 500 Marines into the jaws of death to save 8,000 more. "Uncommon Valor" was ...

He'll bring them death and they will love him for it. Gracchus: But the Senate IS the people, sire. Chosen from AMONG the people. To speak FOR the people. Commodus: I doubt if any of the people eat so ...