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 ...

Noah Taylor plays Simon, the dimwitted local scavenger, tolerated because he's rumoured to have magic powers and, anyhow, is needed to make up the rabbi's dwindling congregation. I am never very ...

Still, he has more than enough to work with. Following a preliminary chapter reflecting on the ancient magician Simon Magus and the doctrines of Gnosticism, which posits that this world was ...