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Showing posts with label Spartacus: Gods of the Arena. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spartacus: Gods of the Arena. Show all posts

September 11, 2012

TV On Blu-ray: Spartacus: Vengeance - Complete Second Season (2012, Blu-ray)

It was only a couple of years ago that the cable channel Starz unleashed the amazingly violent, super sexy goodness that is Spartacus: Blood and Sand. The series took off and went on for another season with its prequel Spartacus: God’s of the Arena. Sadly, the star of Spartacus, Andy Whitfield, succumbed to cancer; which he so very bravely fought. Replacing him as Spartacus would be the similar looking but slender Liam McIntyre. Changing actors is so incredibly tough for a series but in my opinion the younger Aussie born actor holds his own.

Anchor Bay in association with Starz have put together yet another box set on Blu-ray and DVD that will no doubt delight admirers of the Steven S. DeKnight creation. In Spartacus: Vengeance we begin right where season one left off, following the aftermath of the massacre at The House of Batiatis. Spartacus leads his group of muscle-bound gladiators on a journey to build a new life for themselves. On their tail though are Claudius Glaber (Craig Parker) and his Roman soldiers. Glaber will simply stop at nothing. Spartacus has no love loss either as Glaber murdered his wife.

September 12, 2011

TV on Blu-Ray Review: Spartacus: Gods of the Arena

It's never been really easy to find too many programs on TV and cable that both my wife and I could watch together. As much as I’d like to watch Desperate Housewives, Wipe-Out and the ample amount of reality TV garbage we tended to feed ourselves on a weekly basis, there was really nothing on that we both could watch that garnered even a modicum of excitement. That is until we discovered STARZ Entertainment's Spartacus: Blood and Sand almost two years ago. The team of Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert and creator Stephen S. Deknight exposed unsuspecting viewers to what may be the most graphically violent, sexually explicit and most importantly, exciting series of all time. Unfortunately, Spartacus himself, Andy Whitfield, fell ill with a case of non-Hodgkins Lymphoma; any chance of him reprising his role as Spartacus in the near future was low.