There’s really nothing else like it, at least in a very long time, if ever. The audaciousness, even presumption, is already there quite plainly in

No vile thing? Well, that pretty much kills off anything that’s not animated, though we’re not terribly sure about the soundness of Buzz Lightyear or

Editor’s Note: The first part of this article appeared in the May 2009 edition of Perspectives. In this second part Roy Anker picks up where

Hollywood movies seldom show us preachers–an odd fact, given that the United States has, seemingly forever, been beset by the breed before and behind and

After limping along most of the year, the films of 2005 ended with a rare body of work fierce in moral and even spiritual inspection.

It really is a wonder that It’s a Wonderful Life has become the preeminent American Christmas movie, eclipsing even the 1947 Miracle on 34th Street.

The baby Jesus is no sooner breathing than he has to go on the lam, hounded by rankest evil, his parents stealthing the child out

There are no earthquakes, no glowing angels (Matthew), no big stone doors magically rolled away (Mark), or dazzling heavenly pronouncements (Luke). And certainly no five-piece