I realize that 300: Rise Of An Empire is about 1,000 years off the topics of my usual posts, but I'm a sucker for sword and sandal flicks, I had some profound thoughts about it, and so here we go ( Read more... )

Contrary to the jokes Twitter!Orestes makes about Theseus claiming that the film Immortals is a documentary, I hadn't actually seen the movie until now ( Read more... )

While browsing through Yahoo!Images and YouTube, I stumbled across an intriguing short film which seems to be the introduction to an unfinished project.   The soundtrack is a reconstruction of what Homer would have sounded like 2,800 years ago, and the images are a combination of real footage of Mycenae, some great miniature work, and actors in ( Read more... )