One of the more obscure Bible films -- starring Howard Keel as the apostle Peter and Herbert Lom as Herod Antipas -- makes a mess of biblical and secular history, but it's an interesting mess. Read more
One of the more obscure Bible films -- starring Howard Keel as the apostle Peter and Herbert Lom as Herod Antipas -- makes a mess of biblical and secular history, but it's an interesting mess. Read more
The Lumo Project aims to film all four gospels by 2014. Clips from three of the gospels are online already. Read more
The time-traveling romantic comedy About Time is very entertaining, but morally problematic. It does have moments of wisdom, though, especially near the end. Read more
Ridley Scott's recent comments about his life-of-Moses movie Exodus are very different from the comments other filmmakers have made while promoting their own Bible movies over the past 25 years. Read more
The Persians may be villains in 300, but the man who founded their empire issued one of the first known declarations of human rights. Only a very, very few films have acknowledged this. Read more
Antonia Bird, who passed away Thursday at the age of 54, directed one of the more controversial films I reviewed in my early days as a critic. Read more
The writer of 12 Years a Slave tackles a different 19th-century book about a free man forced into slavery. Read more
The studio reportedly wants to make Darren Aronofsky's movie "as biblically accurate as possible". Is that a good thing? Read more
Christian Bale as Moses wields a bow and arrow in new photos taken on the set of Exodus in Spain. Read more
The director reportedly disagrees with the studio over whether any changes should be made to Noah following "troubling reactions" at test screenings. Read more
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