Spartacus (1960). Directed by Stanley Kubrick. Starring Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Peter Ustinov, John Gavin, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton and Tony Curtis. There is an apocryphal story about ...

The Blu-ray edition is fairly low on features and those that are included are short and lack substance, although a few provide mildly entertaining diversions. There are four deleted scenes which ...

How’s this for a Hollywood concept: Working-class hero and champion of the proletariat turns out to be a backwoods berserker whose ax-wielding siren of a wife has visions of blood? All right, that’s ...

Spartacus lived 109-71 B.C. and is one of those characters from the ancient world who, like Julius Caesar and Alexander the Great, continues to capture the imagination of modern film-goers. Although ...

When the freedom cry “I am Spartacus!” first echoed across the big screen in 1960, few moviegoers likely suspected that this slavery-smashing epic was also sounding out true-life human rights issues ...