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April 2015

April 15, 2015

What if A.D. The Bible Continues was a silent movie?

The NBC series has some interesting things in common with the Bible films made a...

April 08, 2015

A.D. The Bible Continues — season one, episode one

A point-by-point analysis of what this series has in common with The Bible (and what...

March 2015

March 31, 2015

Exclusive: Mark Burnett and Roma Downey on “resetting” their take on the Bible in A.D.: The Bible Continues

The producers of A.D.: The Bible Continues say they hope it will be both entertaining...

March 30, 2015

The death of Herod, and Antipas’s response, in two films

Did the 1961 version of King of Kings inspire a scene in Killing Jesus?

March 29, 2015

Exclusive: My interview with Killing Jesus star Haaz Sleiman, plus a mini-review of the film

The star of tonight's National Geographic special and I discuss the relationship between humanity and...

March 19, 2015

Joanna gets a speaking role in Killing Jesus and A.D.

The gospels say multiple women traveled with Jesus and the twelve apostles. Two new films...

March 18, 2015

Visiting the cast and crew of Killing Jesus in Morocco

Middle Eastern actors, a respectfully agnostic approach to the miracles, and a nod to the...

March 15, 2015

The chronological Noah: an illustrated integration of the three origin stories in Darren Aronofsky’s film

Darren Aronofsky's Noah is a "midrash" that fills in some of the gaps in the...

December 2014

December 25, 2014

The Magnificat, and the politics thereof, in film

I can think of only four films that have depicted Mary's famous song of praise...

December 12, 2014

Review: Exodus: Gods and Kings (dir. Ridley Scott, 2014)

Spectacular visuals and stirring music on the one hand, lousy screenwriting and iffy performances on...

December 10, 2014

Moses at the Movies / When we trace more than a century of movies about the Exodus, what do we learn?

Ridley Scott isn't the first filmmaker to tackle the story of Moses, and he certainly...

December 05, 2014

Interview: The Red Tent director Roger Young on bringing humanity to Bible stories, the four kinds of love in his new miniseries, and getting Ben Kingsley to play a teenager

Roger Young has directed several TV-movies based directly on the Bible. Now he's revisiting those...

September 2014

September 01, 2014

An African Jesus / Reimagined as a political activist.

The story of Jesus has become so familiar to us that we sometimes fail to...

July 2014

July 27, 2014

The Bible and Son of God: just how different are they?

Want to see which scenes from The Bible were deleted, shortened, or lengthened in Son...

May 2014

May 29, 2014

The Ascension of Christ in film: literalism, symbolism, etc.

How a dozen films (silent and sound, Hollywood and foreign, live-action and animated) have depicted...

May 01, 2014

Flood Theology

Darren Aronofsky makes movies about obsessive people. To be the protagonist in an Aronofsky film...

March 2014

March 30, 2014

Second impressions: Noah (dir. Darren Aronofsky, 2014)

The first time I saw Noah, I didn't cry. The second time I saw it,...

March 27, 2014

Exclusive: Darren Aronofsky and Ari Handel on universal truths and specific traditions in Noah

Part four of my exclusive four-part interview with the makers of Noah.

March 26, 2014

Exclusive: Darren Aronofsky and Ari Handel on biblical accuracy and combining science and religion in Noah

Part three of my exclusive four-part interview with the makers of Noah.

March 25, 2014

Exclusive: Darren Aronofsky and Ari Handel on how they developed the script and where they really got the name for Emma Watson’s character in Noah

Part two of my exclusive four-part interview with the makers of Noah.

March 24, 2014

Exclusive: Darren Aronofsky and Ari Handel on the meaning of “righteousness”, whether villains can believe in God, and the hurdles they faced when pitching Noah

Part one of my exclusive four-part interview with the makers of Noah.

March 20, 2014

First impressions: Noah (dir. Darren Aronofsky, 2014)

A visually splendid popcorn movie that challenges its audience to ask hard questions about justice,...

February 2014

February 28, 2014

Review: Son of God (dir. Christopher Spencer, 2014)

The producers behind Son of God are attempting something that hasn’t been tried for years,...

February 24, 2014

Darwin Shaw on playing St Peter (and a Lego Bond villain)

The actor who plays Peter in Son of God, which opens this Friday, talks about...

February 16, 2014

The Prodigal Son: three filmed interpretations (and more)

Surprisingly, one of the most popular of Jesus' parables has been filmed only a few...

February 15, 2014

Bible films (and other ancient epics) and Oscar nominations

Son of God opens on the same weekend that the Oscars take place this year....

February 09, 2014

The Publican and the Pharisee: four filmed interpretations

Films have interpreted this parable in a variety of ways, from simply showing Jesus recite...

February 03, 2014

Flashback: Ten years of The Passion of the Christ

Mel Gibson's controversial death-of-Jesus movie turns 10 this month. Here's a look back at the...

January 2014

January 23, 2014

Bible movie of the week: The Bible: In the Beginning… (1966)

The last major film produced during the classic Bible-epic era is a leisurely paced, creative...

December 2013

December 18, 2013

The Prince of Egypt came out fifteen years ago today.

Twelve things you may or may not know about the life-of-Moses cartoon that was also...