Gladiator took home five little gold men at the 73rd Academy Awards…including one for best costume design. Usually we'd be making a bigger deal out of the fact that it won biggies like Best Pictu...

During the botched execution about half an hour into the film, Maximus sustains a ghastly and disgusting wound. And Gladiator continues to focus on this wound for the next fifteen or twenty minutes...

There are about as many animals in Gladiator as there are in Noah (another Russell Crowe glower-fest). From the strange German shepherd-looking dog at the beginning, to the giraffes Proximo is comp...

Before every major battle (in Germania, in the arenas of Africa and in the Colosseum), Maximus bends down, grabs some dirt, and rubs it in his hand. Now, usually we think of dirt as something you w...