Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" opened on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2004, immediately sparking the biggest religious-based movie controversy since ... well, perhaps since Martin Scorsese's "The ...

Rabbi Felipe Goodman is the rabbi at Temple Beth Sholom in Las Vegas. I have a confession to make: I am a real movie fan. I enjoy watching action movies, thrillers, comedies and an occasional drama.

David Edelstein of Slate called the film “a two-hour-and-six-minute snuff movie,” and Passion certainly feels borne of the same film era that made Saw, Hostel and other torture porn movies so popular.

As we approach Holy Week, the Scriptures focus more and more on the coming struggle Jesus will face as he goes to Jerusalem for his final Passover. The debates in the fourth Gospel are hard to read ...

“In this drama of Jesus’ agony, of the anguish of death, of the opposition between the human will not to die and the divine will which offers itself to death, in this drama of Gethsemane the whole ...