God knows who’ll enjoy this dull, cheap-looking and laughably scripted account of what might have happened in Jesus’s childhood

Now I understand why Jesus’s childhood remains such a mystery: the story is unbelievably boring.

At least that’s if you believe The Young Messiah, Cyrus Nowrasteh’s dreary adaptation of Anne Rice’s ultimate origin story, Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt. The film opens with a statement that not much is known about the years in which Joseph and Mary of Nazareth fled Roman soldiers who, at the urging of Herod the Great, were killing Jewish children to prevent a prophesied messiah. Now, for the first time, we’re going to see what might have taken place during those years. That is, if you can stay awake.

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Cinedigm has acquired North American rights to biblical epic Full Of Grace. Written and directed by Andrew Hyatt, the pic examines the final days of Mary of Nazareth. It’s slated for an early 2016 release, preceded by an extensive church screening program. In addition to the film's theatrical release, Full Of Grace will stream on Cinedigm’s newly launched faith-based Dove Channel. Full Of Grace, described as a biblical epic in the spirit of The Passion of the Christ…...