Saturday, October 14, 2006

A NEW MOVIE ABOUT ESTHER is reviewed in the Orlando Sentinel:
One Night With the King (3 stars out of 5)

Roger Moore
| Sentinel Movie Critic
Posted October 13, 2006
Oct 11, 2006


One Night With the King has lavish costumes, giggling harems, a vast ancient city, huge armies, black riders and blood feuds. But no hobbits.

It's a talky imitation DeMille -- no sex, little action, but plenty of intrigues, treachery and comeuppance.

An adequate cast and competent direction make this the most ambitious Biblical period piece since The Passion of the Christ.

It needed a better script and a Charlton Heston -- a magnetic, scenery-chewing leading man. But is has its Yul Brynner. King has charismatic villains aplenty.

[...]
For some background on FoxFaith, see here.
Hollywood took another step toward America's vast and apparently growing Christian audience on Tuesday, as 20th Century Fox unveiled a new division, FoxFaith, that will release up to a dozen religious-oriented films each year.
UPDATE (15 October): G. M. Grena has an extended review, with pictures, at the LMLK blog.

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