2005/2006
Sprawling, bloody and compulsively watchable, “Rome” is a lavish, lascivious spectacle which unfurls like a dozen mini-movies, each fraught with political intrigue, sizzling erotic encounters and gruesome combat that puts the glossy epics of Ridley Scott, et al to shame.
Transpiring during the final years of Julius Caesar’s (Ciar
This article appears in Oct 11-17, 2006.