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James Caviezel is Jesus in Mel Gibson's 'The Passion of the Christ'

‘The Passion of the Christ’ on Amazon Prime and free on Kanopy and Hoopla

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, DVD, Easter, Free, historical, Hoopla, Kanopy, religion, Streaming Movies, SVOD 04/17/2022 Sean Axmaker

Mel Gibson’s passionate, personal, and visceral take on the final twelve hours of Christ’s life on Earth is a powerful and provocative take on the passion play.

Jeffrey Hunter is Jesus in Nicholas Ray's take on the story of Christ

‘King of Kings’ – the 1961 Biblical epic free on Hoopla

!Featured, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, DVD, Easter, Free, historical, Hollywood Classic, Hoopla, religion, SVOD 04/04/2021 Sean Axmaker

King of Kings (1961), Nicholas Ray’s epic drama of the story of Christ (and ostensible remake of Cecil B. DeMille’s 1927 silent classic), has less spectacle than the other epics of its era but it remains one of the most interesting and perceptive Biblical epics of its era. Narration (by Orson Welles) takes us back […]

Ewan McGregor stars as Jesus in Rodrigo García's 'Last Days in the Desert'

‘Last Days in the Desert’ free on Hoopla

!Featured, DVD, Easter, Free, Hoopla, religion, SVOD 04/04/2021 Sean Axmaker

I am not religious but I love stories of The Christ. I don’t mean Ben-Hur (though I do love both the original silent and Charlton Heston versions of the film) but films like Nicholas Ray’s King of Kings, Martin Scorsese’s The Last Temptation of Christ, and Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ, all very […]