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Fighting to survive in a Roman arena: Take a better look at Cestvs

March 15, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Ultra+ has shared a second trailer for the anime based on the historical seinen manga by Shizuya Wazarai.

Filed Under: Anime Tagged With: Gladiator, trailers

Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch expected to fetch £50,000 to £100,000 in auction

August 23, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Nearly 1,000 rare and iconic lots from film and TV memorabilia worth an estimated £6,000,000 will go on auction in London on Monday the 30th of September.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: alien, batman, Ghostbusters, Gladiator, iron man, lightsaber, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, star trek, star wars

Short film: CARL

January 20, 2015 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

CARL is a sci-fi animation in which gladiators are forced to fight to a bloody death in front of their new robot overlords. The tension comes to a head when CARL, the ultimate fighting champion, is pitched against a human slave who doesn’t fight back and then there’s a rescue attempt. I didn’t twig to […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: Gladiator, sci-fi, short film

Short film: Minimus

April 19, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Imagine the scene – it is ancient Rome, the armour-clad gladiators are in the Colosseum and these powerful men are ready to fight and die in front of the crowds. An honourable death awaits these powerful, experienced warriors. And then there is Minimus. He is the weediest gladiator the arena has ever seen. How much […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: Gladiator, history, humour, short film

Kentoushi: Gladiator Begins riffs sexy gladiator action

January 17, 2010 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Seems that Starz Media’s awesome looking Spartacus: Blood and Sand isn’t the only production that’s looking to take the 300, a touch of Rome, some sex and some gladiator action and mix it all around. Acquire has a new game coming out on the PSP called Kentoushi: Gladiator Begins that looks to be doing exactly […]

Filed Under: Console Tagged With: Gladiator, psp

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