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 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 $ ...

In a summer with few outright bombs (but plenty of relative disappointments), Ben-Hur is probably going to be a disaster. The MGM and Paramount/Viacom Inc. release opened with (as of this writing ...

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 ...

Up until recently, when a movie turned out to be a major bomb — not just a financial failure but a symbol of waste, a legend, a stink bomb — there was usually a movie star’s name imprinted ...