Roger Ebert once called one of Ridley Scott’s films “spectacular,” and the epic historical drama is now finding new success ...

Kingdom of Heaven In Kingdom of Heaven, this line carries the quiet power of acceptance — not defeat, but clarity. Spoken in a moment of uncertainty and looming fate, it reminds us that control is an ...

Click here to read more from Slate’s Summer Movies. There was a moment in Hollywood in 2001, soon after Ridley Scott’s Gladiator took home several hundred million dollars and a best picture Oscar, ...

"Kingdom of Heaven" navigates through the minefield of the Crusades and, by extension, the contentious background of Christian-Muslim relations in ways both shrewd and calculated. Genuinely ...

Los Angeles – The epic battle tale “Kingdom of Heaven” fought its way to the top of the box office, taking in $20 million in its debut weekend, but the film did little to boost slumping revenues at ...

Last year Ridley Scott returned to the world of period epics with Kingdom of Heaven, his chronicle of Christian forces' defeat in Jerusalem at the hands of Muslims during the 12th Century. The ...

Doom hangs over "Kingdom of Heaven" like the dust clouds gathered above a desert caravan. Ridley Scott's Middle Eastern history lesson has a romantic foreboding, the sense that while we may not know ...

Last year Ridley Scott returned to the world of period epics with Kingdom of Heaven, his chronicle of Christian forces' defeat in Jerusalem at the hands of Muslims during the 12th Century. The ...

A cinematic obsessive with the filmic palate of a starving raccoon, Rob London will watch pretty much anything once. With a mind like a steel trap, he's an endless fount of movie and TV trivia, borne ...

Was Ridley Scott trying to make a medieval epic, or was he trying to remake Kevin Smith’s Dogma? That was the question I found myself left with as I shuffled rather disappointedly out of the theater ...