300 (2006)

THIS IS AWESOME! No it really is. This is exactly what you need and want from an war epic, and boy what an epic it is. Loosely based on the legendary historical Battle of Thermoplyae, in truth this film is pretty simple, and it is more of a specta... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: Weirdly, the general consensus around '300' is that it's just fluffy and weightless "fun," but clearly the bloody single-track narrative here is only a device for visual and thematic portrayal rather than anything else. Indeed on tha... Read the full review »

300 is ab-solutely ab-tastic yet ab-horrently boring. Homoeroticism at its most stylish. Lumps of pure visualised muscle walking in sandals and red togas. Obnoxiously loud roars piercing the battlegrounds, asserting the Spartan masculinity to the... Read the full review »