It’s Passover this week, so it seemed like an opportune time to dust off and re-post the various articles I have written over the years on movies about Moses and the Exodus -- including an expanded edition of my 1999 survey of the genre for Bible Review. Read more
The Bible isn't the only Holy Week movie in town. A new version of Barabbas is getting its North American premiere on Reelz this week, while the National Geographic Channel just announced plans to adapt Bill O'Reilly's Killing Jesus. Read more
What do World War Z, Iron Man 3 and Star Trek into Darkness have in common? Based on their trailers, images of people being sucked out of airplanes (or starships) in mid-flight. Read more
If Jesus could appear in the Old Testament section of the Bible mini-series, why not have Moses or Elijah appear in the New Testament section? Here's a look at the (very) few Jesus films that have already depicted the Transfiguration. Read more
The third episode of The Bible -- which bridges the Old and New Testaments -- is a mixed bag like the others, but its treatment of Daniel and the Exile in Babylon is especially impressive. Read more
Several cartoons about Noah's Ark have been languishing in development hell for years -- but today one of them took a step closer to getting made, maybe. Here's an update on that film, and a few of the others. Read more
Satan made his third appearance in The Bible last night -- and suddenly viewers are wondering if he resembles a certain President of the United States. Really? Read more
While we await the third episode of The Bible, I take a look back at 'The Bible Collection', a 13-part series of TV-movies released between 1993 and 2002. Read more
Yesterday I passed along the news that Exodus, Ridley Scott’s version of the life of Moses, was “gathering steam” at 20th Century Fox, even as Steven Spielberg had dropped out of directing another Moses movie over at Warner Brothers. Well, now comes word, via Deadline, that Fox and Scott are talking to Christian Bale — who landed one of his first acting gigs in Spielberg’s Empire of the Sun (1987) before growing up to star in the Dark Knight trilogy... Read more
Another week, another episode of the mini-series The Bible. These are my first impressions of the second episode. The pacing, redux. The second episode is 86 minutes long, and the first six minutes consist of footage from the first episode, so that leaves only 80 minutes for the second episode to take us all the way from the spies in Jericho to the birth of King Solomon — a period that covers about two or three centuries. (more…) Read more
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