Satan's child is meant to usher in the apocalypse in the new version of The Omen - but the film is more sulky than scary, says Sukhdev Sandhu

The original chronicled the life and devilish intentions of Satan's offspring and gained an instant cult status when it hit cinemas in 1976. Now, thirty years later, Damien is back.

Churchgoers seen as an untapped market

AS the new year dawned, Jon Krakauer's "Under the Banner of Heaven" - about a "divinely ordered" double murder in 1984 by two members of a breakaway Mormon sect - was fresh off the best-seller list. Warren Jeffs, the polygamist prophet of this splinter group, the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, was on F.B.I. wanted lists. And the world's first-ever "Mormonsploitation Retrospective" ("Passion! Polygamy! Pamphlets!") of vintage fear-mongering anti-Mormon movies had just finished at the fringy Pioneer Theater in the East Village in Manhattan.

JOHANNESBURG - Billed as the world's first black Jesus movie, "Son of Man" portrays Christ as a modern African revolutionary and aims to shatter the Western image of a placid savior with fair hair and blue eyes.

The "Jesus People" movement that peaked in the early '70s, bringing Christianity to the counterculture and vice versa, has been largely forgotten. In the ensuing decades, American churches have increasingly been affiliated with social/political conservatism. That it wasn't always so is vividly illustrated by "Frisbee: The Life and Death of a Hippie Preacher," David Di Sabatino's straightforward, engrossing documentary about a well-buried chapter in recent evangelical history. Tale of Lonnie Frisbee's extraordinary (if brief) pulpit career is a fascinating one that could intrigue diverse niche auds -- Christian, gay, '60s nostalgics -- if carefully marketed in limited release.

Brian Flemming is looking forward to Tuesday’s KC screening of his controversial film “The God Who Wasn’t There.” He never quite knows what kind of situation he’s going to walk into.

In 'The God Who Wasn't There,' a former born-again Christian argues that Christ was a mythological figure.

Wanted: anti-Christ, five. Must have angelic looks, demonic presence and sinister smile

What if they gave a war and forgot to film enough exciting or entertaining scenes? Unfortunately, Steven Spielberg's latest war epic answers that question.

Did you know in the latest census in Great Britain, 390,000 people reported their religion as "Jedi." Officials are left to question the motives of the respondents who successfully skewed the census. The "Jedi Religion" now ranks 4th overall behind Christians, Muslims, and Hindus and actually ahead of Jews and Atheists in Great Britain.

Looking to discover your inner Yoda? Or maybe suppress your inner Jar Jar?

Politically correct Crusades: 'Kingdom of Heaven' avoids Muslim outcry

Stranger-than-fiction story recounted in context of its time

Read this to see if you're in the target audience for the new cult-hit documentary, "What the Bleep Do We Know?" See if you can follow the logic:

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