One family’s centurieslong trade provides a window on British colonial history and Kenya’s independence, but its time looks ...

Gerard Butler did not reprise his role as King Leonidas for Rise of an Empire except for repurposed footage from the first 300. To fill the void left by Butler, Sullivan Stapleton was cast as ...

Say what you will about Zack Snyder’s 300 – and there could be entire psychoanalytical studies written about that film – but you can’t deny that it was visually striking. Despite Snyder handing over ...

Adam Chitwood is a former Managing Editor at Collider, where he covered film and television with a focus on interviews, features, and industry analysis. Warner Bros. has released a slew of new ...

For more than a decade, people have been saying that the era of US dominance is coming to an end. But in reality there are still no other global players to rival it In recent years, the idea that the ...

Once there was an empire that governed roughly a quarter of the world’s population, covered about the same proportion of the Earth’s land surface, and dominated nearly all its oceans. The British ...

Among all the foreign policy decisions President Obama has made, the most surprising may be the one to go to war in Libya without either requesting a declaration of war from Congress, as required by ...

Two intellectuals who debated this question both favor a policy of global intervention for the United States but disagreed about what it means and how to characterize that role. A recent overflow ...

Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire (Farrar, Strous, and Giroux, 2019). The concluding words of Daniel Immerwahr’s new book should leave no one in doubt as to where he stands. “The history of the ...

An historian and a policymaker walk into a bar. On one screen, a journalist is reporting a coup on a South Pacific island. The historian looks at the policymaker and says, “Just another example of ...

Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...