The Passion of the Christ

Jesus Christ On Screen: Who Played Him The Best?

It's the ultimate role because you get to be holy and look good yet suffer for your craft, all with the promise of a return engagement. And a lot of terrific actors have attempted to nail the role. Your divine choices:

Extreme Sex Addiction in Shame; Extreme Everything in Possession

The Top 10 Crucifixion Scenes on YouTube: Happy Good Friday!

Happy Good Friday! Today we bring you the 10 most memorable crucifixion scenes we could find on YouTube. They range from the sublime to the sacrilegious, and include the best and bloodiest of various films, TV shows and commercials. Most are probably not suitable for work, unless you are a Roman cen ... More >>

The Way Back Is a Grueling Trip

Go Go Tales A Sweet Strip Tease

After Miramax

Measuring the prospects of a new crop of independent distributors

My Favorite Things

​Hollywood's voyage to the Third Dimension is continuing apace with announced plans to re-release newly 3-D-ized versions of 2001, Star Wars, and The Passion of the Christ, but the first 3-D musical -- an all-star remake of The Sound of Music -- is proving to be more difficult than anticipated ... More >>

Welcome Back, Mr. Riffer: Sam Lipsyte's The Ask

Mother-rimming pricks beware

Viggo Mortensen's The Road Takes Path of Least Resistance

A Particularly Appalling Application of Sharia Law in Stoning of Soraya M.

The Excruciating Details of Death-by-Starvation in Hunger

Quiet Riot

Silence is an act of opposition in long, hushed monk doc

Lee's Top 10

Mel Gibson Is Responsible for All the Wars in the World

OK, slight exaggeration, but he's at least to blame for this one he made up

Toronto Confidential

Mob scenes and murders: An action-packed installment of an all-encompassing festival

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Twin Peaks

The season's smartest double bill is a match made in heaven and hell

The New Disaster Movie

How the events of September 11 renewed Hollywood's appetite for destruction

Waiting for Gibson

Spiritual bull session fails to generate real Passion

Pew and Cry

Jesus is my co-pilot: Aidan Quinn stars in a network drama about desperate Episcopalians

Letters

Heavenly Features

Moving into the mainstream, the Christian right tells Hollywood to have a little faith

Kosher Market

The Lusty Men

Gay cowboys and masturbatory pet projects steam up fest

Slump Fiction

Hollywood's real moneymakers yet to come

This Is Your Mom on Drugs

A new series about a drug-dealing suburban homemaker kicks against conservative pricks and Christian bitches

It's The End of the World as We Know It and I Feel Fine

Atrocity Exhibition

An archival assemblage of World War I horrors ponders the political power of violent images

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Back to the Future

An independent-film veteran recalls the '80s and looks ahead

Natural Born Killer

Tousled bleach jobs, one-eyed stiffs: Neo-epic drops its veils but keeps the nookie offscreen

Matinee-Ready Exorcist Prequel Haunted by Its Own Phantom

The Big Ones

Michael Moore and Spider-Man fight evil in two new summer blockbusters

Herskovits Moves Theater Forward—to Its Medieval Roots

Film

A Resurrected Anti-Passion: Python's Sunday-School Travesty

Art

Spreading The Word

Religious Studies gets a second life. What does the Supreme Court think?

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Jew vs. Jew vs. Mel

Have Jewish Critics of The Passion of the Christ Actually Fueled New Anti-Semitism?

A Passion for Provocation

Lars von Trier's Dogville is a Christian allegory—with a bite

The Passion of the Blonds!

Mamet conjures a worst-case scenario for the Bush twins

A B-list dreamboat's dream role: Your own impersonal Jesus

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The Backlash Passion

A Messianic Meller for Our Time

Flogged to Death

Muscular action, cosmetic wonders: Mel gives the Christ story a fantasy-epic makeover

Out of Control

Mel's Dad May Think That 'Oscar' Is a Jewish Name

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Mel Gibson's Jesus Christ Pose

The Passion of the Christ Marks the Latest Chapter in the Making of a Hollywood Martyr