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Christian Bale

A collection of 3 posts
Film Review

Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014): Or, "Moses and Errin'"

Dear Ridley Scott, My name is Aaron. I'm the brother of Moses. In the Holy Scriptures, when Moses balks at God's call for him to go and free the Israelites from Egyptian slavery, claiming a lack of eloquence, God gets aggravated and assigns me to travel
12 Dec 2014 8 min read
The Prince of Egypt Returns...
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The Prince of Egypt Returns...

Didja hear? Disney's asked the writer of Transformers to pen the script for a live-action version of... Dumbo. Seems to be the thing to do now: Turn animated classics into live-action versions that nobody wants. Along the same lines, remember Dreamworks' animated epic The Prince of Egypt?
08 Jul 2014 2 min read
Christian Bale

Christian to play a Christian?

Zhang Yimou has become quite an unpredictable, interesting director in recent years. He established himself with lush, dramatic, even operatic historical pieces, and more recently reinvented himself as a master of colorful, elaborately choreographed martial arts dramas like Hero and House of Flying Daggers. Along the way, there was the
22 Dec 2010
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