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Review: BEN-HUR Races Against Expectations

Vividly re-imagined, the new Ben-Hur is a lot of fun to watch, in part because it follows the outline of William Wyler's famed film while injecting fresh new elements. It's not a classic, by any means, but it certainly exceeds...

Hollywood Beat: THE ODYSSEY and BEN-HUR Threaten Anew From Public Domain

First Moby Dick, now The Odyssey. What other classics will be heading to space? We first heard several months ago that Lynn Ramsay was developing a science-fiction version of Herman Melville's Moby Dick, intended to be "a psychological action thriller...