December 26 saw the opening of Ridley Scott’s $140-million Moses epic Exodus: Gods and Kings.  As cumbersome as its video game-friendly title, the film is occasionally spectacular but mostly stodgy, not to mention camp in the way that only a very, very serious endeavour can be.  Closer in spirit to Scott’s own Gladiator (2000) and Kingdom of Heaven (2005) than to Cecil B. De Mille’s two treatments of the same material (1923 and 1956), Exodus capped an unusually busy year for the Old Testament on screen. While the first and likely most profitable Biblical film of 2014 was a New…