Ben-Hur at 60: why the biblical blockbuster doesn't hold up
In 1959, the religious epic won 11 Oscars and became a box office hit but in the years since, its status as a classic hasn’t worn quite as well as the year’s other smashes
April 2019
Brief letters
Hadaway wi’ ya dialect confusion
Brief letters: Life before Google Maps | Stanley Kubrick’s best films | Regional dialect | Crossword | WB Yeats
November 2016
MGM reports $47.8m loss from Ben-Hur box-office flop
The wheels came off the biblical remake, which took just $26m in the US despite a production budget of $100m
September 2016
Box office analysis: UK
Don't Breathe spooks Ben-Hur's horses at the UK box office
Ben-Hur review – dull-witted remake
Don't judge Ben-Hur by the 2016 version
Brief letters
Now here’s a bright idea for Mrs May
Trailer park
Ben-Hur trailer: Roman epic gets a greenscreen reboot – video
Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
Ben-Hur review – chariots of dire
Box office analysis: US
Gloom in Hollywood as reports indicate top blockbusters lost $1bn this summer
August 2016
As the wheels fall off Ben-Hur, where next for the Hollywood blockbuster?
Where have all the summer blockbusters gone?
Was everyone on Ben-Hur 2016 too busy sourcing camel milk to generate new movie ideas?
Lindy West
Ben-Hur trampled underfoot at US box office as Suicide Squad defies critics
Why has Hollywood put Ben-Hur back in the closet?
Ben-Hur review – rowdy revamp takes a Roman holiday from reality
November 2015
Ben Hur review – more panto than Pinter
Ben Hur review – biblical epic with a cast of … four
April 2015
Pope Francis blesses Ben-Hur's new Jesus at the Vatican
Brazil’s Rodrigo Santoro, who is playing Christ in a new Ben-Hur movie, was filming in Rome when he met the pope
March 2015
Ben-Hur remake filming banned from Rome’s Circus Maximus
Italian authorities prevent producers using ancient Roman chariot race site for Morgan Freeman and Jack Huston version of 1959 Charlton Heston film
