the last temptation of christ

The Chosen – season five, episode two

Some Gentiles come to the Temple to worship the Jewish God, John gets to know one of the high priest’s servants, Jesus performs a shocking act of…

Sep 28 • Peter T Chattaway

The Chosen – season four, episode seven

Jesus raises Lazarus and brings an end to the public-miracle phase of his ministry. Also: notes on medieval traditions, the darkness of Lazarus’s tomb…

Aug 26 • Peter T Chattaway

Going into Lazarus’s tomb: four films

Zeffirelli’s Jesus of Nazareth, Scorsese’s The Last Temptation of Christ, The Visual Bible’s The Gospel of John, and Dallas Jenkins’ The Chosen all zoom…

Aug 25 • Peter T Chattaway

Video round-up: Scorsese presents Mary! David: King of Israel! The Faithful clip! David clip!

A quick round-up of recently-released trailers, clips, and featurettes for biblical shows and movies past, present, and future.

Mar 18 • Peter T Chattaway

Newsbites: The Chosen universe! Scorsese! Ruth & Boaz! The Promised Land! The King of Kings!

The Chosen's animated series is coming to Prime Video in October. Also: Martin Scorsese plays someone named Isaiah (again!), and Netflix's modernized…

Sep 1, 2025 • Peter T Chattaway

Mel Gibson says he might shoot the sequel to The Passion of the Christ "next year"

He also says The Resurrection of the Christ will be a time-jumping “acid trip” that goes from “the fall of the angels to the death of the last apostle.”

Jan 15, 2025 • Peter T Chattaway

Clothes, nudity, and baptism in Jesus movies

The early Christians were baptized naked. Jesus himself is naked in some of the icons depicting his baptism. But very few films have dared to go that…

Jan 6, 2023 • Peter T Chattaway

An Animated Moses: The Prince of Egypt

A detailed look at the making, and meaning, of the Bible film at the heart of one of the most revolutionary decades in the history of animation.

Dec 16, 2022 • Peter T Chattaway

Bible movie of the week: Jesus, the Spirit of God (2007)

An Iranian film tells a Muslim version of the story of Jesus.

Jun 24, 2013 • Peter T Chattaway

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