Two on Hypatia.

There's a new movie that's supposed to be about the life of Hypatia, an Alexandrian Neoplatonist philosopher and her murder at the hands of a Christian mob. But the details are off:

• David Bentley Hart is supremely irritated, and he hasn't even seen the film. Working from a New York Times article, he goes over some of the territory he covered in his last book.
• But in case you don't trust a movie that's being reviewed at such a level of remove, Nathan Schneider's posted a review at Religion Dispatches. Though he comes to substantially the same conclusion about the accuracy of the history, he's got some kind words for the film's larger perspective.

Either way, not the sort of movie I'm planning to see.