This is the twenty-third entry in the Bible Junkies Online Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles. This entry considers the beginning of the mission to Samaria and the introduction of Simon the ...

This is the twenty-fourth entry in the Bible Junkies Online Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles. This entry deals with the apostles Peter and John taking up Philip’s mission to Samaria and Simon ...

The Orange County Jewish Film Festival opens Sunday at UC Irvine. The event, co-sponsored by UCI and University Synagogue of Irvine, consists of five screenings through May 9. The schedule: * “Simon ...

The Lottery-funded Simon Magus has little chance of making back its investment, but at least writer-director Ben Hopkins has put together a classier offering than his first film, the inept comedy ...

As if unearthed from a forgotten corner of an archive vault, the opening shots of Simon Magus flicker like a spliced-up German expressionist film, revealing a nightmarish world of crooked trees, ...

The debut film from writer-director Ben Hopkins, based on a Yiddish folk tale, is set in a stetl on a Christian estate in 19th-century Middle Europe. Noah Taylor plays Simon, the dimwitted local ...

Young British writer/director, The 29-year-old Ben Hopkins brings us his feature film debut in this dark, mystical, fairytale of love, devil worshipping and rivalry. Set in Poland in the late 19th ...