In Apocalypse Now, Robert Duvall’s Lieut. Col. Kilgore declared that napalm smells like “victory.” This weekend 300: Rise of an Empire, depicting an ancient Greece-vs.-Persia naval battle with plenty ...

Early in 300: Rise of an Empire, a spirited “debate” breaks out in the middle of the Athenian Senate. The powerful Persian army is headed to Greece, led by the “god-king” Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro), and ...

Stephanie Zacharek was the principal film critic at the Village Voice from 2013 to 2015. She is a member of the New York Film Critics Circle and of the National Society of Film Critics. In 2015 ...

Starring Sullivan Stapleton, Eva Green, Lena Headey, Jack O'Connell, Rodrigo Santoro and directed by Noam Murro, 300: Rise of an Empire is the prequel to Zack Snyder's 2006 comic book adaptation of ...

A new blood-thirsty poster for '300' sequel '300: Rise of an Empire' has just begun sloshing around the internet. It shows star Sullivan Stapleton looking a bit grumpy and bruised while a towering ...

History becomes a vulgar spectacle in this ultraviolent actioner about the second Persian invasion of Greece and the Battle of Artemisium. An Athenian general (Sullivan Stapleton) leads his ...

Told in the breathtaking visual style of the blockbuster "300," this new chapter of the epic saga takes the action to a fresh battlefield—on the sea—as Greek general Themistokles attempts to unite all ...