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Box office: The Fall Guy, uh, falls behind expectations as summer gets off to a slow start

Box office: R-rated sports drama, PG-rated faith-based music biopic lead a soft pre-summer weekend

Newsbites: Branagh! Ben-Hur! Testament! Clarence! Chosen!

Box office: A divided America wards off the vampires as Civil War beats Abigail

Newsbites: Scorsese casts Spider-Jesus?

Box office: Civil War sets new records

Newsbites: Anthony Hopkins as Herod! Netflix goes "faith-based"! New animated Jesus film! And more!

Box office: Monkey gods and Antichrists are no match for Godzilla x Kong

Box office: Godzilla x Kong is already the 4th-biggest movie of the year

Newsbites: Malick! Scorsese! Chosen! Cabrini!

Box office: Ghostbusters leads a trio of spooky new movies

Newsbites: Covenant! Noah! Godspell! Chosen!

Box office: Panda, Dune show strong legs while a handful of new films barely make a dent

Box office: Two big blockbusters share the top ten with three (count 'em!) "faith-based" films

Newsbites: Moses! David! Cabrini! Clarence!

Box office: Dune rises to new heights, while The Chosen slips some more

The Chosen Season 4 creators speak some more!

Box office: Angels can't save this weekend

Flashback: The Passion of the Christ turns 20

The Chosen S4 Eps 1-3 – a few brief thoughts

Newsbites: Turkish Moses! Sign-language Jesus! Freud & Moses! Malick! Scorsese! Clarence!

When and how did Simon become Peter?

Box office: Bob Marley rules, Madame Web flops, The Chosen slides

Testament – the modernized book of Acts announces its cast

David: A King's Calling – a pilot for a proposed series

Young David – episode four

The Chosen video round-up: new scene, new trailer, etc.

Box office: A lack of new films leads to one of the worst weekends since the pandemic

Get ready to talk about The Chosen's big plot twist

Watch: A ten-minute clip from The Book of Clarence

The Chosen – comparative box-office stats

Box office: A closer look at The Chosen Season 4: Episodes 1-3

Box office: Argylle underwhelms, while The Chosen rises up the chart

Newsbites: Scorsese! Forty-Seven Days! Pageant! Unbreakable! Cabrini! Sight! Etc.!

The Chosen Season 4 creators speak!

Box office: Mean Girls beats The Beekeeper in a tight race to see who can be the lowest-grossing #1 film since 2022

Young David – episode three

Flashback: Notes on a few films by Norman Jewison (1926-2024)

Oscar winners at the box office — 2023

Oscar nominations — my own two bits, and a complete list

The Book of Clarence round-up: International release date news, and a few new interviews

Box office: The top ten list barely changes, while a few films reach new milestones

Exclusive: Dallas Jenkins and Jon Erwin on that new Saul-and-David series for Amazon Prime

Box office: Mean Girls breaks a record, The Book of Clarence barely cracks the top ten

The Book of Clarence round-up: A few last soundbites and interviews

Newsbites: Scorsese's Jesus! The Chosen!

Box office: Night Swim joins a post-holiday top ten list that mostly treads water

The nitpicker's guide to Journey to Bethlehem – part three

Film Journal 2024

Analysis: Jesus confronts the Pharisees in a new clip from The Chosen Season 4

Box office: Finally, a rush of big (and big-ish) movies gives theatres an end-of-the-year boost