Despite being one of the film’s most memorable moments, Joaquin Phoenix’s thumbs down in Gladiator is not actually historically accurate. Gladiator is a historical epic film directed by…
A prominent character in the first act of Gladiator is Marcus Aurelius, with the film raising the question of whether his death was consistent with…
Released in 2000, Ridley Scott’s Gladiator is an epic film about revenge, loss, and justice from the point of view of Russell Crowe’s Maximus Decimus…
Fallout is the latest prestige video game turned into a series, and where The Last of Us had fungal zombies and buckets of tears, the new Prime…
Fantasy and science fiction films come and go, with even massive franchises often disappearing to wait for their next generational reboot. However, a…
In J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, Bilbo and Thorin’s Company of Dwarves traveled through Mirkwood to the Lonely Mountain. Mirkwood was home to…
The extended edition of Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King film included several scenes that had to be cut…
Even a century after their initial inception, The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit still rank among the most well-known fictional works in history. J.R.R. Tolkien’s…
Determining Middle-earth’s strongest characters can be tricky, as J. R. R. Tolkien did not write The Lord of the Rings or the rest of his…
Faramir was one of the most tragic characters in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings film trilogy. In theory, he should have had a…