Religious Music & Entertainment

noah 2014

December 2023

December 22, 2023
Netflix released a huge list of its 18,000 most-watched shows. Noah and The Chosen both...

May 2022

May 24, 2022
Russell Crowe and Christian Bale, who co-starred in 3:10 to Yuma before starring in Noah...

April 2022

April 16, 2022
Can demons be saved? An edgy ad campaign for the popular life-of-Jesus series is surprisingly...

December 2021

December 10, 2021
The film will explore what would happen if the Ark was discovered by the Red...
December 18, 2018
Detailed notes on the making, and legacy, of the first successful Bible epic since the...

October 2016

October 13, 2016
In which an actor from one of 2014's big Bible epics visits the location of...

September 2016

September 23, 2016
Rob Moore was vice chairman at Paramount Pictures when the studio produced both Noah and...

July 2016

July 29, 2016
Early tracking indicates that Ben-Hur might play like a "faith-based" film -- but it was...

June 2016

June 13, 2016
Two collections of scholarly essays analyzing these films are due to come out in the...

May 2016

May 27, 2016
A scene in the middle of the new X-Men movie explicitly references an apocryphal legend...
May 17, 2016
As befits a film with the word “Apocalypse” in its title, there is a lot...
May 16, 2016
It has been two years since the film came out, and the controversies it engendered...

March 2016

March 25, 2016
In which I look at what the film’s sources are (both canonical and non-canonical), what...

February 2016

February 23, 2016
What does this clip have in common with Proyas's earlier films, and why does it...

January 2016

January 29, 2016
This is at least the second Bible movie in which Ray Winstone plays a king...
January 14, 2016
Over 300 items will be on the block.
January 11, 2016
The currently untitled film will be Aronofsky's first since Noah. How have other Bible-movie makers...

December 2015

December 01, 2015
The filmmaker, currently in Paris for the climate talks, recently talked about the "very important...

October 2015

October 25, 2015
Sometimes, in religious art, a person's face or entire body will glow to signify his...
October 12, 2015
Ironically, a Christian film that appears to have been launched in response to Darren Aronofsky's...

July 2015

July 20, 2015
Darren Aronofsky's film came out on Blu-Ray and DVD one year ago this month. Here's...

March 2015

March 19, 2015
One looks at how Noah, Black Swan and other films have focused on the eyes...
March 15, 2015
Darren Aronofsky's Noah is a "midrash" that fills in some of the gaps in the...

February 2015

February 04, 2015
The film has been nominated for a Visual Effects Society award; the winner will be...
February 03, 2015
Plus an update on the film's global box-office performance.

January 2015

January 04, 2015
For some reason, the Bible movie that got better reviews has more worst-of-the-year nominations.

December 2014

December 22, 2014
The sound design was just as important to Aronofsky's film as the visuals and the...
December 19, 2014
Do Bible movies have to be made by Christians (or observant Jews, for that matter)...
December 15, 2014
Is the Academy taking the makeup on the quasi-fantastical animals into account, too?
December 13, 2014
How a minor character from the story of Moses ended up in the story of...
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