Frederica Mathewes-Green explains how her early commitment to feminist principles helped convert her to the pro-life cause.

Magic in the Moonlight
When they invent a really reliable time machine, I’m going back to the day I graduated from college. I was an English major who took electives like “German Film of ...

Inside Llewyn Davis
There’s much to admire, but not much to enjoy, in Inside Llewyn Davis, the latest film from the Coen brothers. Joel and Ethan Coen, two Minnesota boys, have won great ...
Enough of Anger
Sorting through some old boxes in the basement, I ran across a manila envelope stuffed with 40-year-old women’s-lib literature. It was right under the Earth Shoes. Forty years ago, I ...

Disappointment in Austenland
The elements of Austenland are terrific: It has a clever premise, is based on a successful novel, has Jerusha Hess (of Napoleon Dynamite) in the director’s chair, and stars cute, ...

Monsters University
Never seen a Pixar movie before? A good place to start is Monsters, Inc. (2001). It’s about Sully and his best friend, Mike, a typical buddy-movie pair. Sully, voiced by ...
The Look of the Thing
Nothing too deep, but I am wondering if the time has come that a president has to look different from the white-guy banker-look. Superficials are so important, and Obama had ...
Brave’s Tomboy Princess
As I watched the trailer for Brave I had a sinking feeling. It’s funny, of course, and the images and characters are brightly appealing. But the plot . . . ...

The Wonderful Adventures of Tintin
I have eleven grandchildren, so I see plenty of children’s movies. I have acquired a jaundiced eye. As autumn leaves drift into piles, as souvenir teacups proliferate around a royal ...
‘Ladies and Gentlemen, the Film The Illusionist!’
The Illusionist has been nominated for Best Animated Feature (I mean the new animated film, of course, not the 2006 live-action movie by the same title), and no one who has seen ...