During the first century A.D., Judah Ben-Hur is a young Hebrew prince who is thrown into slavery by the Romans after a tragic accident. He sets out to win his way back to his home on a heroic journey ...

There aren’t many surprises in the new Ben-Hur. It’s a noisy, dull, thoroughly soulless affair built on banal dialogue, flat acting, and slapdash computer-generated imagery that barely looks better ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - The attorney for Walter Andrew Brister IV, the Louisiana Tech student who hit and killed a man on Ben Hur Road last Saturday, said his client did not realize he was the ...

Judah Ben-Hur’s sexuality has been hotly debated for decades, but a new film is pushing him firmly back into the closet. A new remake of the 1959 William Wyler-directed swords-and-sandals epic ...

The new movie version of Ben-Hur that’s about to land in theaters, featuring Morgan Freeman, isn’t just a reimagining of one classic movie. The hit 1880 Lew Wallace novel of that name has been adapted ...

Epic is a word that is often overused to describe films today. In an age when directors often use virtual crowds, green screens and CGI set extensions to increase their films’ scale, there is always ...

Director Timur Bekmambetov looks to combine his particular action style with a classic tale of Christian forgiveness in Ben-Hur, the latest adaptation of the 1880 novel by Lew Wallace. Of course, he’s ...

There are a number of things missing from the new movie “Ben-Hur” — Quintus Arrius, functioning tripods, a discernible point — but nothing perhaps so notable as the words “A Tale of the Christ.” That ...

It’s hard to make a new movie about Jesus. True, the Gospels are full of intrigue, betrayal and violence, rich material for cinematic adaptation. But film versions of the New Testament are plentiful.

Like “The Lone Ranger” or “Battleship,” “Ben-Hur” is one of those massive box office wipe-outs that defies easy comprehension. How could something go this disastrously wrong? After all, 1959’s ...