Peter T. Chattaway
Film Critic at Patheos
Award-winning writer with a special interest in film and faith, and in the Bible movie genre specifically. 'Aqaba is over there. It's only a matter of going.'
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Nine months ago, The Chosen creator Dallas Jenkins announced that one of the show’s first major spin-offs will be a miniseries about Joseph and his jealous brothers that will serve as a prelude to an even longer series about Moses.
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With less than three months to go until its theatrical release, the makers of Light of the World—the year’s second major animated movie about Jesus—have put out a new clip from the film, in which the disciples meet each other. You can watch the clip here:A few points about this clip:It begins with Peter saying, a bit repetitively, that he’ll “follow [Jesus] into the most unimaginable ordeal imaginable”.
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For the first time ever, the top two movies at the box office are both live-action remakes of animated movies: How to Train Your Dragon, this week’s #1 movie, is a remake of the 2010 DreamWorks classic, while Lilo & Stitch, which dropped to #2 this week after three weeks at the top, is a remake of the 2002 Disney cartoon.1Even more remarkable, both of the new live-action remakes are directed by men named Dean.
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There are so many Bible movies and TV shows coming out these days, it’s getting hard to keep up with them all. Case in point: I still haven’t seen the Mary Magdalene episode of Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints, which came out a couple months ago, one week after The Chosen: Last Supperand The King of Kings came out in theatres and only a couple weeks after House of David finished its first season on Prime Video.
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Paul Syrstad didn’t set out to modernize the book of Acts—not at first, anyway. The British actor and filmmaker originally wanted to make some short films based on the parables of Jesus, showing how they connect to the present day.
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#MartinScorsesePresentsTheSaints is getting a 2nd season, and it will feature 3 - arguably 4 - biblical characters. The first episodes are coming out in November. (The picture is of Harry Dean Stanton playing Paul in Scorsese's Last Temptation of Christ.) https://t.co/xemURXQdHE https://t.co/PKt5NOMKOH
My interview with Paul Syrstad, co-writer/director of #Testament, a modernization of the book of Acts that started streaming on the @AngelStudiosInc platform this week. (New episodes every week until July 21.) https://t.co/brFAXBswgA https://t.co/IqUgSbLNDi
Kinda wish he'd been asked how he would have applied his more nuanced, empathetic approach to the Emperor if he hadn't kept the character offscreen.
This week's episode of "Interesting Times" is a conversation with Tony Gilroy, the man behind "Andor," about the politics of art and the future of the movies: https://t.co/Jk8vPGZaj9