Troy: Fall of a City has been reasonably entertaining across its first three episodes, but it's probably fair to say that it's a second-tier series. It can't hold a candle to Rome, Spartacus, Game of ...
Achilles of Troy, who rocketed into the ranks of top Kentucky Derby contenders with a runaway romp in the Jan. 7 Count Fleet Stakes at the Big A, will be heavily favored to duplicate that sensational ...
The much-memed boast, uttered by Brad Pitt in 2004’s Troy, feels multi-layered in hindsight. As the legendary warrior Achilles, he’s searching for an actual challenge. He’s already defeated Greece’s ...
OZONE PARK, N.Y. -- The connections of Achilles of Troy believe the colt hardly scratched the surface of his talent last year when he reeled off three wins in 45 days to establish himself as an early ...
The $200,000 Gotham (gr. III), switched this year to a two-turn race on Aqueduct's inner track at 1 1/16 miles, has drawn a strong field of 11 Saturday, including top-notch 3-year-olds Achilles of ...
NEW YORK — Even someone like Brad Pitt — the $20-million-a-movie man, one-half of Hollywood's platinum couple — has his weak spots.There's that tendon in his heel, the one he hurt after months of ...
Inspired by Homer's Iliad, Wolfgang Petersen's Troy, opening in US on 14 May, recalls the old-fashioned epics of the 1960s. When Paris (Orlando Bloom), the young prince of Troy persuades Helen, Queen ...
“Sing, O Goddess, the anger of Achilles the son of Paleas that brought countless ills on the Achaeans.” Don’t go to Troy expecting Homer’s Iliad. Instead, filmmaker Wolfgang Peterson (Das Boot, The ...