Gaugamela Nights: The Ballad Of Oliver Stone’s Alexander
“Fortune favours the bold,” quoth Virgil in the opening titles to Oliver Stone’s epic, Alexander (2004). It is meant to sum up the the reach of perhaps the greatest overachiever in any world,...
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The elephant battle, River Jhelum Towards the end of Oliver Stone’s Alexander, Colin Farrell’s driven Macedonian has pushed his army further than any Greek in the ancient world has ever gone, now...
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When Michael Mann revamped his 1980′s “MTV Cops” format in 2006, he chose to deliver a cop drama again like no other: hyper-realised, impressionistic, big. No longer bound by their Miami-Dade...
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