It’s impossible to imagine Hollywood today making a blockbuster movie about a medieval Castilian knight who died in 1099, or that a U.S. president would have multiple screenings of such a film at the ...

`El Cid,” made in Europe in 1961 with Charlton Heston starring as the Spanish hero of the 11th Century, has risen from the graveyard of Hollywood epics courtesy of director Martin Scorsese, who loves ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Austin Shakespeare's production of El Cid is a contemporary adaptation of ...

An engaging, if unadventurous, specimen of a rare breed -- a Spanish animated feature -- succeeds as lighthearted kids' entertainment. Toon never rises to the visual and dramatic opportunities ...