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BATMAN BC… After dusting off the swords-and-sandals sub-genre with Gladiator in 2000, Sir Ridley Scott now has a crack at reviving the Biblical epic. Such movies were big, in every way, in the ’50s and ’60s, when pictures like Ben-Hur, Quo Vadis, King Of Kings, The Ten Commandments and The …

In the ’90s, the LAPD ’S Rampart division imploded due to widespread corruption. The word “rampart” itself brings to mind outdated defences – things that don’t bend but break. Perhaps the latter is more relevant to Oren Moverman’s ( The Messenger ) second film. A James Ellroy ( LA Confidential …