The title of Sidney Lumet’s latest is lifted from the old Irish saying “may you be in heaven thirty minutes before the devil knows you’re dead,” the entirety of which is typed across the screen as a disguised Ethan Hawke watches a bullet-riddled robber fly through the doors of his parents’ jewelry store, set smack…

Where have all the evangelicals gone? And for that matter, how about the Catholics? The Americans? Anyone who has remote respect for–and belief in–the Bible? Last week, I heard about a controversy over Disney Radio refusing to mention the word “God” in the advertising for “The Ten Commandments,” the new animated movie starring Ben Kingsley,…

“Music Within” tells the story of Vietnam vet Richard Pimentel (Ron Livingston), who returns home with a severe hearing loss. Coping with his own new disability, Richard befriends a genius (Michael Sheen) with cerebral palsy, another veteran (Yul Vasquez) suffering from alcoholism, and and girl into “free-love” (Melissa George). Richard eventually becomes a tireless advocate…

Have you ever noticed that some of the world’s sexiest celebrities have made appearances in movies, and TV movies, about the Bible? Believe me, I have! I know it’s completely naive, but I tend to think about ancient religious figures as looking like replicas of the illustrated drawings from the Children’s Bible that I grew…

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