It wasn’t the swords. It wasn’t the sandals. For Rufus Sewell , the tough part was all the stinkin’ mud. Playing a 12th-century stonemason in mega miniseries The Pillars of the Earth , premiering tonight on Starz at 10/9c, meant maintaining “a level of grime on my neck consistent with that of your typical farm animal,” he says. A small price, indeed, for what’s shaping up to be the armor-clanking, leech-sucking,... 

Ridley Scott apparently saw Prince Of Thieves in the early 90s and it pissed him off (no King John, Robin wasn’t English, Bryan Adams song wasn’t as good as the real-life Robin Hood Bryan Adams song), and he’s now taking it out on Hollywood by re-cutting Gladiator , replacing the Coliseum with trees, and…well, that’s it. That’s the one change he made. It doesn’t look bad, but it also doesn’t not look...