Northern Irish actor Ray Stevenson died in Italy today at the age of 58, leaving behind a lifetime of performances that celebrated and demonized the beautiful, brutal side of masculinity. Nowhere in ...

• "Rome" premieres at 9 p.m. Sunday on HBO (premium cable channel 551 in Spokane, 208 in Coeur d'Alene) Back in 52 B.C., Lucius Vorenus and Titus Pullo were bit players in Julius Caesar’s sweeping ...

Julius Caesar’s Gallic Wars celebrate conquest and command, yet rare passages reveal the lives of ordinary legionaries like Vorenus and Pullo. Their rivalry and battlefield loyalty offer a rare ...

Before there was Spartacus or The Tudors, Vikings or The Borgias—before Game of Thrones—there was Rome. As the first salvo of a legion of period epics and historic fictions on premium cable, Rome was ...

It’s hard to know where to start in describing the pleasures of “Rome,” the engrossing historical chronicle that begins its second season at 8 p.m. Sunday on HBO. The sprawling cast, most of it from ...

Ray Stevenson of Punisher: War Zone played bad boy Titus Pullo in the fantastic Rome series on HBO. Now he’s hooking up with the megawatt cast of postapocalyptic flick The Book Of Eli, which already ...

Playing Roman centurion Vorenus brought out the big kid in Kevin McKidd. "It's all schoolboy fantasy stuff, Vorenus's storylines," he grins. "Being soldiers, getting to gallop horses and go into ...