48 h. ago The Carpenter’s Son review – Nicolas Cage is predictably miscast in dull biblical horror

A grim, grave-faced look at Jesus realising he is in fact the son of God is a bafflingly acted and messily made boreIt’s hard to know how seriously one should take a film that casts Nicolas Cage as Joseph, the carpenter who acted as the adoptive father of Jesus. One might expect, with the actor still relying on his trademark California intonation and histrionic outbursts, that this would be another one of his late-stage career larks, like playing Dracula or himself. But in The Carpenter’s Son, a bafflingly serious stew of horror, drama and fantasy, it slowly starts to dawn on us that this is in fact, not a joke. What it is I couldn’t tell you but entertaining it most definitely isn’t.The film, from Egypt-born, London-raised writer and director Lotfy Nathan, is inspired by the Infancy Gospel of Thomas, a text seen as heretical by some, which offers highly debated “insight” into the early years of Jesus. Nathan begins by clueing us into the fact that this isn’t your vicar’s Sunday sch...

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66 h. ago Nicolas Cage's 'The Carpenter's Son' turns an apocryphal text about Jesus' youth into a horror film

Filmmaker Lotfy Nathan has turned the apocryphal Infancy Gospel of Thomas into a supernatural thriller called “The Carpenter’s Son,” starring Nicolas Cage

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4 d. ago Nicolas Cage biblical horror film The Carpenter's Son blasted as 'dreary' and 'misguided' in first reviews

The reviews are in, and critics are saying Nicolas Cage has another stinker on his hands with his latest film, The Carpenter's Son.

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7 d. ago ‘My son took a carpentry job and vanished’: How Putin is luring 20,000 troops from Caribbean with promise of 100x salary

ON Ukraine's bloody frontline, Russian soldiers face certain death as they are poured into Vladimir Putin's meatgrinder war every day. But as his population dwindles amid increasingly barbaric attacks, he looks abroad to replenish his ranks - by trafficking foreign workers and using them as frontline fodder. In Cuba, families face being ripped apart as...

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3 w. ago Nicolas Cage wins over Luton film crew with Greggs feast while shooting new movie Fortitude

The Con Air star has been getting a taste for Britain as he reunites with director Simon West on a new World War II spy drama

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Carpenter returned to perform on the late-night sketch comedy show after debuting as musical guest in 2024

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