George Stevens’s 1965 film, “The Greatest Story Ever Told,” also on demand, is an unwieldy film of frequently awkward earnestness.
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The movie is, of course, a silent, which some children and even some younger film critics may look at as punishment, so you’ve been warned. DeMille’s 1927 epic, “King of Kings,” which proved a seminal influence on the mainstream Bible picture. FilmStruck’s Criterion Channel has the director Cecil B. Once that’s out of the way (it is not in the bailiwick of this column to consider the many kitschy Easter bunny television specials available on streaming), that leaves the religious pictures. If you’d like to punish your children, that might be a good option.
The most prominent Easter Bunny movie for rent or purchase from Amazon Video, YouTube, Vudu, Google Play and iTunes is the 2011 film “Hop.” It is a terrible computer-animated picture in which the Easter Bunny excretes jelly beans. Unless cooking a rosemary-and-garlic leg of lamb - or hiding some chocolate eggs - poses a challenge. While a good number of Christmas movies hinge on the question of whether a Christmas celebration will happen, or happen properly - this is a thread that runs from “It’s a Wonderful Life” to “The Santa Clause” and its ilk, including “Santa Claus Conquers the Martians” - families celebrating Easter don’t typically worry about pulling it off, so to speak. There are not a whole lot of what one could call “Easter movies,” perhaps because there’s no suspense involved in the holiday itself.