Patrick is a former corporate drone who has a healthy obsession with current and classic cinema. He also harbors an unhealthy obsession with The Real Housewives franchise. The formula is simple: a ...

The history of the peplum genre, known as sword-and-sandal cinema, set in Antiquity, from the silent film era to the present day.

While the upcoming release of Spartacus: House of Ashur has every sword and sandal action fan standing at attention, there's been no shortage of great movies in the genre over the years. Films like ...

Sword and sandal films cover a wide range of subgenres, from historical dramas, biblical tales, and fantasy, to mythological epics. Through the decades, Hollywood has been enamored by the stunning ...

“Every so often we want naked men in short leather and women with cleavage wearing snakes in their hair,” said film historian and author Jeanine Basinger of Wesleyan University. “There is an audience ...

Hollywood’s latest sword-and-sandal epic Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time opens Friday, and while the draw is ostensibly fancy action sequences and video-game tie-ins, there’s a reason we and ...

Welcome back to our queer film retrospective, “A Gay Old Time.” In this week’s column, we’re revisiting a campy sword-and-sandal classic with 1963’s Jason And The Argonauts. In anticipation of the ...

Streaming platforms for Sword-and-Sandal: The Story of the Period Epic haven’t been announced yet. Check back soon for updates on where you can watch it online.