People who love the story of Ben-Hur will better invest their time in the original film than the most recent cinematic attempt. I wanted to like it. There are artistic touches to the film, but the ...

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“Ben-Hur” and Charlton Heston go together like sword and sandal, the two being inextricably linked in the public mind. But the new, $100 million version of Ben-Hur owes less to the well-known 1959 big ...

Of all the film genres, the epic is one of the hardest to define. Must it be a period piece? Must the plot center on a hero? Why is “East of Eden” (1955), with its relatively meager runtime of 117 ...