The Young Messiah (2016)

Back in the first few months that I was writing this blog I wrote two pieces  about a potential adaptation of Anne Rice's novel " ...

Little Baby Jesus of Flandr (2010)En waar de sterre bleef stille staan (And Where the Stars Remained Silent)

Little Baby Jesus of Flander (Van den Berghe, 2010) was released just two years after Serra's Birdsong and is certainly reminiscent of...

Birdsong vs the Biblical Epic

Two years after The Nativity Story  and Spanish/Catalan director Albert Serra produced El cant dels ocells ( Birdsong ). In contrast to The...

Cleopatra (1934) and What it Says about DeMille

Whilst Cecil B. DeMille's Cleopatra (1934) may not quite be a biblical film it's worth of a few words of consideration here not onl...

The Characteristics of the Biblical Epic: Part 2 - Defining Attributes

This is the third in a series looking at the Biblical Epic Genre In my last post in this series I was looking at the criteria that various ...

The Characteristics of the Biblical Epic: Part 1 - What the Experts Say

This is the second in a series looking at the Biblical Epic Genre In my last post in this series I was looking at the arguments for and agai...

Is There a 'Biblical Epic' Genre?

This is the first in a series looking at the Biblical Epic genre I want to look at the question of if there is a 'Biblical Epic' gen...