The Last Lions (2011) | intense and beautifully shot (and narrated by Scar/Jeremy Irons himself!), this doc is worth the watch even though the anthropomorphic script gets a bit heavy-handed and silly.
oh hey, looks like i found a new show to get into. the pilot of The Borgias was quite good - full of sex, death, religion, history, and costumes. if this goes well, might there be a chance for a spinoff concerning The Medicis? (get on it, HBO!)
as a sidenote, i recall a feature film project in the early 2000s that was also called The Borgias (i think) and Ewan McGregor was attached as Cesare Borgia and Christina Ricci as his sister Lucrezia. that casting seemed odd, but it would have been interesting nonetheless.
