The story behind Tom Cruise’s only major flop: Fires, crocodiles and a flailing Ridley Scott
Forty years ago, ‘Legend’ hit theaters, but neither the filmmakers nor the audience seemed entirely sure what the movie was about
Jessa Crispin: ‘Michael Douglas’s films perfectly represent the new masculinity’
The American writer has published the book ‘What’s Wrong with Men?’ in which she asserts that the actor’s filmography explains the crisis of masculinity
Kristen Stewart and Scarlett Johansson’s directorial debuts: Between obvious experimentation and sentimental classicism
‘The Chronology of Water’ and ‘Eleanor the Great,’ which are competing in the Un Certain Regard section, speak of trauma and loneliness from opposite perspectives
‘Acting is the only thing I can do’: The glory, disappearance and comeback of Michael Fassbender
He was declared a big-screen phenomenon before a series of bad artistic decision led to him taking a break — and now he’s back, with ‘The Agency’ and ‘Black Bag’
Jeremy Irons: ‘I love villains, I identify with them’
‘Brideshead Revisited,’ ‘The Mission,’ ‘The French Lieutenant’s Woman’… these are just some of the titles in film and television that forged the career of this great British actor. Irons originally intended to be a musician, but his physique, voice and acting skills led him down the path of cinema. EL PAÍS spoke with him in Seville
Ridley Scott’s dizzying career at 87: Big hits, epic flops and multimillion-dollar budgets
While ‘Gladiator II’ has been a box office triumph, his recent body of work has divided both critics and audiences
‘Gladiator II’: Sequels are almost never better. Confirmed
Here, strength and honor are nonexistent, the script is as crazy as it is unintentionally comical, and devoid of any magnetism
From a cult to Hollywood royalty: Joaquin Phoenix, the star who has overcome it all
One of the most brilliant and unconventional actors of his generation turns 50 at an interesting juncture in his career. Although his last two major projects have flopped, he has a knack for coming back when least expected
‘Romulus’ director Fede Álvarez reviews the ‘Alien’ saga film by film: ‘We wanted to bring them all together’
The filmmaker, who has loved the franchise since he was a small child in Uruguay, says that he wanted to create a movie that would link all the sequels and prequels
‘Gladiator II′: Enjoy the show, read books to learn history
María Engracía Muñoz-Santos|
Ridley Scott’s new film will be released later this year, which after ‘Gladiator’ (2000) and ‘Napoleon’ (2023) once again provides easy bait for many ‘specialists’ in ancient Rome
‘Gladiator 2’: Rhinos in the arena demonstrated Rome’s power over the world
These animals, captured in either Africa or Asian, could often be seen in the Colosseum, fighting against bulls or being killed by Emperor Commodus
‘When he’s sober, he’s boring as hell’: 25 years without Oliver Reed, the star who televised his long decline
Felipe Cabrerizo|
He was one of the great British performers and one of the world’s most iconic vagabonds. After a fascinating career that was affected by his turbulent character and struggles with alcohol, he decided to become what the world wanted to see: the most televised drunk in the world
Villa Necchi, the mansion that survived Mussolini and conquered Hollywood
The former family home of a series of rich industrialists from Milan was designed by Piero Portaluppi, a prolific Italian architect. Today, the residence is visited as a monument and used as a film set
60 years of Brad Pitt: How the college dropout got his first big break in Hollywood
The actor had his first major opportunity in the industry after being part of the supporting cast of the now classic ‘Thelma & Louise’
Jeremy Podesewa, the low-profile television legend who has inherited the legacy of ‘Blade Runner’
The director’s new project is ‘Blade Runner 2099,’ the Prime Video miniseries that extends the famous franchise which was brought to life by Ridley Scott
Kissinger and his crimes
Once you have killed more than 100 people, it doesn’t matter if you have killed a thousand or a million, you enter the category of statesman. You do it according to a strategy, a vision and for an idea, a country
‘Hunger Games’ feasts, ‘Napoleon’ conquers but ‘Wish’ doesn’t come true at Thanksgiving box office
‘Napoleon’ outperformed expectations to take $32.5 million over the five-day weekend and an estimated $20.4 million Friday through Sunday
‘Napoleon’: The great man leaves me cold
As much as Ridley Scott’s visual power dazzles in the battle sequences, spending two hours and forty minutes in the company of the intense Joaquin Phoenix, who plays the French emperor, is exhausting
Ridley Scott’s ‘Napoleón’ has few fans in France: ‘A very anti-French film’
Historians point out factual errors and hostile bias against the emperor in the movie by the ‘Blade Runner’ director