As an admitted word geek I often find the origin of English words to be fascinating. Take the word “passion,” for example. It’s a common word that we read, hear and use frequently in various forms.

When "The Passion of the Christ" became a sensation in 2004 — it remains the top-grossing Christian movie of all time — some viewers struggled with the film's violence and its sole use of Aramaic, ...

This is a movie review, not a screed on why Mel Gibson’s film version of the last twelve hours of Christ is offensive to Jews, a sop to the Christian right and a selective reading of the Bible. We’ll ...

Mel Gibson has confirmed what many have long suspected: “The Passion of the Christ” will indeed have a follow-up, though the actor and filmmaker hesitates to call “The Resurrection” a sequel. Speaking ...

Now 90 years old, The Passion of Joan of Arc captures like few other films what it means to suffer with Christ. A Vatican film list honoree, it is new on Blu-ray from the Criterion Collection. This ...