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Rated R. Our ratings: V- ; L- ; S/N- But he was wounded for our transgressions, crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the punishment that made us whole, and by his bruises we are healed. Isaiah 53:5 The Passion of the Christ Recut Can deleting six minutes of a film make much of a …
The arrest, trial, flogging and crucifixion is shown in painfully bloody detail. Brief flashbacks to Christ’s earlier life set the context.
A musical retelling of Christ’s Passion from the viewpoint of Judas that has more anachronisms than the 1973 version–and more energy.
This rock opera, with much of the cast dressed like hippies, recounts the last week in the lives of Jesus Christ and Judas Iscariot.
During the Neronian persecution in Rome, Luke visits the imprisoned Paul while church leaders Aquila & Priscilla debate whether to stay or leave.
Joan of Arc’s trial is set forth by Theodore Dreyer as a parallel to that of Jesus of Nazareth, both being Innocents suffering at the hands of evil men.
A skeptical pastor in a rural church in Victorian England runs up against the village legend that every 25 years an angel blesses one candle so that the fortunate purchaser will be granted a miracle.
Director Michael Mohel combines horror with religion in this tale of twisted religious fanaticism joined with male chauvinism. It is so bloody that potential viewers need to steel themselves as the climax looms ahead. Postulant nun Cecilia ( Sydney Sweeney), just off the plane at Rome, is delayed by two leering customs officers who state …
The history of the positive & negative relationships between Hollywood & Christians & the rise of specifically Christian filmmakers.
“Camp Spectacle and Queer Style from the Silent Era to the Modern Day” By Richard Lindsay. Praeger. 2015 Reprinted from the July 2016 issue of Visual Parables. The subtitle immediately puts the potential reader on notice that this book is not just another survey of Hollywood’s attack on, uh, adaptation of, the Bible for the …