Brian Cox recently walked Vanity Fair through several of his most high profile roles, including his turn as Agamemnon in Wolfgang Peterson’s 2004 historical war film “Troy.” The swords-and-sandals ...

Brad Pitt, Robert Redford’s golden Mini-Me, is not the first actor to leap to mind for the godlike, muscle-bound Greek killing machine, Achilles, who’s torn between his lust for eternal glory and the ...

Good but not great, Wolfgang Petersen’s “Troy” is a $200 million star-driven rewrite of Homer’s “The Illiad.” Brad Pitt is the star, and the rewrite was necessary to beef up his character: the ...

The majority of contemporary films are nearly impervious to wider modern realities and suffer the consequences. In many ways a mediocre and formulaic work, Troy manages nonetheless to catch at certain ...