The Surprising Gimme Shelter
Gimme Shelter, a film with a powerful pro-life message that opened yesterday in theaters around the country, almost didn’t make it to the screen; certain forces in Hollywood thought it ...
Family Film Mirror, Mirror Opens Today
Mirror, Mirror is not for children who want films to mimic fairy tales in every detail. But for everyone else, this is an amusing take on the Snow White story: ...
Not My Mother’s Christian Film
I was 13 years old when my mother took me, in 1970, to see The Cross and the Switchblade, an unabashedly evangelical film about New York gang leader Nicky Cruz, ...
Can This (Royal) Marriage Be Saved?
Thirty years ago this July, I stayed up to watch the fairy-tale wedding between a shy young pre-school teacher and the prince of Wales. Fifteen years, two children, and considerable ...
Coming to a Truck Stop Near You
Fourteen-year-old Cara and her 15-year-old cousin, Stacy (not their real names) walked out of their homes in Toledo, Ohio on a rainy May day in 2005 to get milkshakes. ...
The Thrill of Victory, the Agony of the Feet
The 2007 New York City Marathon is finished, except for a few thousand stragglers; after four hours of pounding the pavement, I am now hiking exhaustedly back to my hotel, ...
The Jews Knew?
There is something about growing up in the Golden Age of Conspiracy Theories (in my case, for example, that the Mafia/Castro/ CIA really killed President Kennedy) that turns one off ...
Telling the Rape Victim’s Story
It’s the kind of question designed to make pro-life politicians squirm.
“Tell me,” Wendell Goler asked Senator Sam Brownback during Tuesday’s Republican presidential debate, “Since you’ve opposed abortion in every instance ...
A Brutal Musical
There are pleasanter ways to spend an evening than watching people be kicked, whipped, and shot to death. Nevertheless, some 1,300 people paid $80 a ticket to watch on-stage depictions ...
Little Boy Lost
Adam Walsh would be 31 years old today had he not been kidnapped from a Florida shopping mall and murdered. The little boy in the famous photograph — the one ...