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Mini Mood: Gladiator and Gladiator II
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Moody Movies: Gladiator (2000) and Gladiator II (2024)
Welcome back to Mini Mood: a bite-sized episode that focuses on a movie at the top of the zeitgeist. For this episode, Kylie and Elliott start thinking about the Roman Empire. Along the way, they prepare to be entertained, consider who Gladiator is for (millennial dads? and their children?), like when the gladiators start gladiating, celebrate a big-brave-beautiful-blockbuster boy, and appreciate the queerness at the edges of the sequel.
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