The Hollywood Biblical epics of the 1950s and ’60s are about as perfectly uniform as any genre has been: the same kind of intoxicatingly lavish sets and costumes with the same kind of stentorian, declamatory acting telling the same kind of feebly-developed but ostensibly “inspirational” narratives as the same kind of lush, achingly earnest string-based […]
Categories: costume dramas, the dread biopic, very serious movies, worthy adaptations
