Last night at 2:17 AM, every child from Mrs. Gandy's class went missing.

Young Ben-Hur and Messala were the best of friends. They loved to race chariots. One day, Messala had to leave Jerusalem and his Jewish friend, to study in Rome and become a Roman officer. When ...

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...

1959’s Ben-Hur — which airs today on TCM at 6 a.m. EST — isn’t just one of the most popular religious films of all time. The three-plus hour epic starring Charlton Heston as the titular ...

Freeman will play Ildarin, the man who oversees the slave Judah Ben-Hur's transformation to champion chariot racer. It has been reported that Tom Hiddleston is wanted for the lead role, but the ...

Charlton Heston as Judah Ben-Hur in Ben-Hur (1959) Image via Loews, Inc. 1959's Ben-Hur is the very definition of an epic, a sprawling experience that few films truly match, as told by its record 11 ...

Had "Ben-Hur" never been made, "Braveheart" wouldn't have been nearly as brave, and Peter Jackson's "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy wouldn't have been half as lordly. Both cinematic spectacles drew ...

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 ...