Although movies based on comic books are becoming more popular, they still aren't considered very mainstream and generally haven't been very successful. Some superhero films have certainly pulled ahead of the pack ("X-Men" and "Spider-Man" come to mind) and brought in...

[i]Thank you to Ann for sending in this review![/i] When Rudolph Maté's epic about the Battle of Thermopylae, "The 300 Spartans," was released in 1962, it arrived at the tail end of Hollywood's longest sword-and-sandals cycle. Critics and audiences promptly ignored...

‘300′- the 117 minute Action drama starring Gerard Butler, has all the blood and violence needed to keep the adrenaline flowing in your veins. The film, directed by Zack Snyder, is a journey back into the era when the toughest decision were taken in the most barbaric...

Of the movies being released this year, 300 may well have been the one I was most looking forward. In my youth one of my favourite films was 300 Spartans. And years ago I read the graphic novel 300 by Frank Miller and Lynn Varley. Loving both the 1962 movie and the...

When you're watching the spectacle that is Zack Snyder and Frank Miller's "300," I can certainly see why it's tempting to forget that this is simply a comic book movie. Granted, an ambitious and nearly flawlessly rendered one, but a comic book movie all the same. So,...

MACHISMO is dished out in big helpings when the Spartans stand up to the Persians in the latest version of the Battle of Thermopylae. The result, Zack Snyder's "300," is a wild testosterone cartoon that is neither historical nor hysterical but somewhere in between -...

I took my family ( minus my wife-sorry hon! ) to see ” 300 “, and while my daughter really did not care for it, nor my Mom ( which pretty much means my wife would not have liked it either ) my daughter’s boyfriend Brett and I enjoyed it and my friend and sometime...

I will seriously do whatever you want if you stop yelling at me. Everything about 300 is extraordinary and over-the-top. The performances, the violence, the neo-con rhetoric, the reliance on computer-generated abs, the gore, the nudity, the slow-motion – everything....

Film doesn’t have fully rounded characters, but it is a visual spectacle When Rudolph Mate’s epic about the Battle of Thermopylae, “The 300 Spartans,” was released in 1962, it arrived at the tail end of Hollywood’s longest sword-and-sandals cycle. Critics and...

Before there was an Alamo – or an Agincourt, or an Iwo Jima – there was the Battle of Thermopylae, ancient Greece's official entry in the "all-time great last stands" sweepstakes. From a numbers standpoint, it presents a nearly unbeatable scenario: 300 Spartans,...

[b]A full-bore gore, total-immersion and visually thrilling battle experience that's not for the faint hearted[/b] All you sissies and pantywaists, out of the theatre. This means you, Skippy, cowering in the corner with your man purse and your granola bar. The Spartan...

Before leaving Friday evening for a particular movie theater in Orlando, I decided to read one last review of "300," which opens this weekend. It was from CNN, and they didn't like it. "It's not so much the body count or even the bloodlust that's disturbing," CNN's...

From the moments its trailer hit the Internet and theaters, "300" left people gaping at the beauty that could be found in 30 seconds of footage. Graphic novelist Frank Miller, also the mastermind behind "Sin City," divulges the epic tale of historical Battle of...