It’s about much more than simple entertainment, they said. — -- “Ben-Hur,” the epic 1959 tale, is coming back to the big screen today, this time re-imagined for a new generation of ...

The new movie version of Ben-Hur that’s about to land in theaters, featuring Morgan Freeman, isn’t just a reimagining of one classic movie. The hit 1880 Lew Wallace novel of that name has been ...

A chariot race exciting enough to evoke the one from 1959 still isn't enough to justify a sludgy and scattershot remake. When you watch the 1959 “Ben-Hur,” a studio classic so big and stodgy ...

The genre known in the business as "sword-and-sandal" has taken a hit in recent years, and the death blow may be the horrible performance this past weekend of Paramount's reboot of "Ben-Hur," a $ ...