The Coen brothers' debut film, the Texas noir Blood Simple, was released January 18th, 1985. Its legacy echoes through their subsequent films.

Gladiator II is directed by Ridley Scott, who also directed the first film. The original Gladiator is available to stream now ...

Why do we see German and Roman characters speaking like they’re from London? The blame lies partly with film directors – and ...

Ptolemy, the last king of Mauretania, which included parts of modern-day Morocco, was executed by Roman Emperor Caligula in ...

Hanno is defined by the film’s most formidable character, Macrinus, played by the Mephistophelean Denzel Washington, as a ...

Lucius (Paul Mescal), who has built a peaceful life in Numidia. That peace is shattered when twin emperors, the conniving and chaotic Geta (Joseph Quinn) and Caracalla (Fred Hechinger), unleash havoc ...

With rage in his heart and the future of the Empire at stake ... push the button and make the 500 sets of Roman, 500 sets of Numidian, and all that kind of thing. We were all in a slight panic ...

Sixteen years have passed since our man Maximus died in the gladiator arena, thus rendering his concerted efforts to make Rome a free and just empire were ... country of Numidia and lay waste ...

But, historically, by AD200 Numidia had been a thoroughly integrated part of the Roman empire for over 250 years. First as part of the province of Africa Nova, and later as a province in its own ...