Hey, sleazemon­key! Remem­ber we were talk­ing about Mel Gib­son’s film, The Pas­sion of the Christ, entirely filmed in Ara­maic and Latin and claimed to be “the most bib­lic­ally accur­ate depic­tion of the cru­ci­fix­ion ever made”? 

You might be inter­ested in this art­icle at Salon (you have to watch an ad to get a day pass if you’re not a sub­scriber). It’s an inter­view with a priest who saw it and is deeply dis­turbed by its inac­curacies, the chance it may again raise charges of dei­cide against Jews, Gib­son’s implied racism in gen­eral and a per­ceived obses­sion with tor­ture and gore.

Mind you, having had a look at the IMDb list­ing, some nice cast­ing there: Monica Bel­lucci as Mary Mag­dalene… of course, no one will ever do Mag­dalene like PJ Harvey did.