Editor’s note: Joel Baden is professor of Hebrew Bible at Yale University. Candida Moss is professor of New Testament and early Christianity at the University of Notre Dame. The opinions in this ...
Bottom line: As much as I love a good Bible movie, I’m going to go ahead and boycott this one. And I invite my fellow Jews to join me. I mean, do we really want to watch a movie in which Moses is ...
The new movie, “Exodus: Gods and Kings,” has drawn a lot of heat because of the producer’s choice to, once again, select a white cast to portray the Egyptians and the Jews of the Old Testament. To ...
To what do we owe the second coming of the biblical epic? A genre that was once as moldy as stale communion wafers has been reborn this year, first with Darren Aronofsky’s “Noah” and now with Ridley ...
December 12, 2024, marks the 10th anniversary of Ridley Scott's panned historical epic Exodus: Gods and Kings. New to Tubi on December 1, it's worth reflecting on why the film failed to resonate among ...
CAIRO (AP) -- Egypt on Sunday said it banned Ridley Scott's biblical epic "Exodus: Gods & Kings" because the Hollywood blockbuster distorts Egypt's history and presents a "racist" image of Jews. The ...
Polls have shown that religious audiences care a lot about whether a Bible film is “biblically accurate.” This is a difficult phrase to use when one is talking about taking a story from one medium ...
The Christian Bale starrer earned $8.6 million Friday while Chris Rock's 'Top Five' took in $2.5 million By Rebecca Ford Senior Awards Editor The final Bible-based film in a year full of ...
"Exodus: Gods and Kings," Ridley Scott's two-and-a-half-hour bible epic, never goes deep enough into the head of its hero, Moses, a waste of actor Christian Bale's capacity for nuance. At the ...