Jesus (Gregorio Duvivier) arrives from the desert after 40 days to a surprise birthday party. Pic credit: Marios Kotsos/YouTube. The First Temptation of Christ is a satirical comedy currently ...

“If I was a woodcutter, I’d cut. If I was a fire, I’d burn. But I’m a heart and I love. That’s the only thing I can do.” THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST (1988) screens at The St. Louis Public Library ...

David Bowie wasn't the lead, but his best performance came in the highly controversial Martin Scorsese film, The Last ...

Imagine a story in which Jesus Christ shirked his religious obligations and instead pursued a career as… a gay juggler. That’s the basic plot of The First Temptation of Christ on Netflix, a ...

The Gospel of the First Sunday of Lent always deals with Jesus’ temptation in the desert, but Mark’s account is relatively sparse (a mere two verses) and devoid of details about the temptations. It ...

The saga of Netflix’s The First Temptation of Christ continues. This week, a Brazilian judge ordered Netflix to remove the Christmas comedy special, which depicts Jesus Christ as a gay man, after ...

Willem Dafoe is reflecting on his controversial performance as Jesus in 1988's The Last Temptation of Christ. The 70-year-old actor recalled starring in the Martin Scorsese epic during a master class ...

He came out of a sandstorm, bloody and battered, an earthen and flawed Jesus who 30 years ago set off a culture war over questions of faith and the divide between artistic freedom and Christian ...

Reviving one of the more-notable battles in the culture wars, albeit a battle first fought 30 years ago, two people have complained to the Maricopa County Community College District about segments of ...

Verna Bloom, a character actress best known for playing the cheating wife of Dean Wormer in “Animal House” and Mary, mother of Jesus in Martin Scorsese’s “The Last Temptation of Christ,” has died at ...