Sitemap - 2024 - Thoughts and Spoilers
Watch: Jesus blesses a betrothed couple in a clip from The Chosen Season 5
Box office: Nosferatu brings horror to the holidays as Mufasa challenges Sonic for the top spot
Mary falls off the Netflix Top 10 in week 3
Box office: Sonic the Hedgehog runs laps around the Lion King prequel
Watch: A clip from Light of the World, and FK&C covers U2 for the House of David soundtrack album
Mary rises to #3 on the Netflix Top 10
Box office: Kraven and the Rohirrim flop hard while musicals and holiday films keep going strong
House of David – how much of the story will it tell?
House of David – behold the first photos
Mary debuts at #4 on the Netflix Top 10
The Chosen sneak-peeks two more scenes from Season 5
Box office: Moana 2 breaks another record as specialty releases pack the top ten
Watch: The official trailer for Gabriel and the Guardians
Box office: Moana 2 sails into the American Thanksgiving record books
Trailer round-up: The Chosen Season 5! The King of Kings!
Box office: Wicked, Gladiator II set new records
Should Israeli actors star in Bible movies?
Did the baby Jesus burp, cry, or get sick?
Trailer round-up: Mary! Light of the World!
Box office: The Best Christmas Pageant Ever is one of the bigger recent "faith-based" hits
The Chosen Season 5 sneak peek – a few quick notes
Sound of Freedom director tackles Nativity story in Bethlehem
Box office: Forrest Gump reunion flops, Venom holds, Wild Robot surges
Newsbites: Scorsese's Saints! Netflix's Narnia! Land of Nod! Last Supper! The Chosen!
How many Hobbit and Lord of the Rings actors have also been in Bible movies?
Two quick notes about Netflix's Mary
Box office: Venom 3 opens soft, but not as soft as Joker 2 (and it cost less too)
Video round-up: Light of the World! The Book of Clarence! The Chosen!
Box office: Smile franchise holds steady, Wild Robot hits new milestone
Newsbites: Netflix's Mary! Netflix's Ruth & Boaz! ASL Jesus! and more!
Box office: Joker 2 has the worst debut of any major Batman or Joker movie
Interview: The Promised Land director Mitch Hudson on making a comedy series about Moses
Box office: The Wild Robot has one of the best non-franchise debuts of the decade
Newsbites: Scorsese's Jesus! Netflix's Mary! Mel's Passion! Gabriel's teaser!
The Promised Land – episode one
Bible movies on Netflix: the first-half-of-2024 viewership stats
Box office: Transformers One is... not number one
Newsbites: The Chosen universe! The Passion sequel!
Newsbites: The Chosen! The Promised Land! The King of Kings! The Carpenter!
Box office: Four religious and/or politically conservative films land in the top ten
Newsbites: House of David! Carpenter's Son! Judas' Gospel! Noah's Ark 2!
Box office: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is Tim Burton's first bona fide hit in years
Box office: Reagan the top new film in a slow Labour Day weekend
Newsbites: Biblical Exorcist! Herodian intrigue! Animated Ark! Animated Jesus!
Box office: The Forge can't quite revive the ailing "faith-based" genre
Box office: Alien: Romulus is a late-summer success, albeit a qualified one
How many Alien actors have also been in Bible movies?
Flashback: Close-ups on non-human faces in Ridley Scott's Alien
The Promised Land season one to start shooting this fall
Box office: It Ends with Us nearly topples Deadpool & Wolverine
Box office: Deadpool & Wolverine breaks another R-rated record
How many Omen actors have also been in Bible movies?
Watch: Jesus gives Simon a new name in a scene from The Chosen
Box office: Deadpool & Wolverine breaks all the records – okay, just some of them
Box office: Twisters takes the world by storm
Box office: Indie horror hit succeeds where recent big-studio efforts failed
Newsbites: Israeli Jesus! Feminist Mary! Funny Moses! and more!
Box office: Despicable Me recaptures a bit of July 4 magic, Sound of Hope doesn't
Box office: A Quiet Place: Day One ends an already strong month on a strong note
The Chosen S4E8 – a quick round-up
Morgan Freeman, Affirm TV developing a series about the early Jesus followers
Box office: Inside Out 2 sets new records in its second week
The Chosen S4E7 – a quick round-up
Newsbites: King Saul gets another son! Moses comedy gets a trailer!
The Chosen S4E6 – a quick round-up
House of David reveals its lead actors
Flashback: the original Inside Out (2015)
Box office: Inside Out 2 brings theatres (and Disney-Pixar) back to life
The Chosen S4E5 – a quick round-up
The Chosen S4E4 – a quick round-up
Box office: Bad Boys opens strong in an otherwise weak weekend
The Chosen S4E3 – a quick round-up
Animated Jesus movie gets its "villains"
The Chosen S4E2 – a quick round-up
Box office: Furiosa falls, Garfield rises in a week with no new major films
Video updates: The Chosen returns! Jesus does ASL! Moses is funny! and more!
Bible movies on Netflix: the second-half-of-2023 viewership stats
Box office: Furiosa, Garfield duke it out in worst Memorial Day weekend since 1995
Oscar Isaac, Forest Whitaker join animated Charles Dickens Jesus movie
Box office: IF is the latest summer film to fall behind expectations
How many Dune actors have also been in Bible movies?
The sign-language Jesus movie is coming to theatres next month
Box office: Computer-animated apes come to the rescue... again
Watch: Mother Mary washes Jesus' hair in a new clip from The Chosen
Tyler Perry, DeVon Franklin to produce modernized Ruth & Boaz story for Netflix
Nicolas Cage to star as Joseph in a horror movie about Jesus' younger years
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
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!
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
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