There is a peculiar shot before the sea battle in Timur Bekmambetov’s Ben-Hur. The eponymous character is shackled, badly bruised and covered in mud, the effects of poor living conditions on the Roman Vessel he has been imprisoned on for…
Ben Hur The Misguided Remake
Coming into Ben Hur, to say the stakes were high for this re-imagined Oscar classic would be an understatement. With the 1959 version having collected 11 Oscars back in the day replicating that same success was an impossibility. But with…