January 1, 2006 Film breathes life into Narnia chronicles

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is first and foremost a cinematic celebration of the wonders of myth and imagery. This movie will have universal appeal. It stands equal to both The Lord of the Rings and Harry ...

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December 1, 2005 'The church gave us dignity'

The history of black people in Canada has sometimes been sketchy, caught up and trampled in the rush of French, British, Irish and Scottish stories written in the early years of exploration and settlement. The documentary Seeking Salvation: A History of the Black Church in Canada illuminates an essential part of the black experience in this country: its relationship with Christianity.

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March 1, 2005 A glimpse of the unexplainable

The most tempting mistake when one looks at an event like the 1994 genocide in Rwanda is to think that if you talk to all the right people, read all the right books or see the right movies, you will understand. We want...

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December 1, 2004 Film provides a glimpse of an early schism

Anglicans and Lutherans have formally joined forces in Canada but remain quite ignorant of each other's history. This is especially true of their significant, albeit distinct, formative and shared experience of the 16th-century...

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October 1, 2004 Israeli film lauded for its 'spiritual values'

The Ecumenical Jury at the 28th Montreal World Film Festival has awarded its prize to the feature film Hacala Hasurit (The Syrian Bride), an Israeli-French-German co-production by Jerusalem-born director Eran Riklis. The...

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June 1, 2004 Film a surprise hit

Mel Gibson's film The Passion of the Christ has become a surprise hit in the Arab world, among both Muslims and Christians, who often have different motivations for viewing the controversial movie. While Christian Arabs,...

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February 1, 2004 A journey worthy of Ulysses

Cold Mountain is a small story set against a huge backdrop of events and the nurturing sweep of landscape and nature. At the outset of the American Civil War, Ada Monroe moves to the isolated town of Cold Mountain in North...

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December 1, 2003 Bible epic proves a compelling film

Before viewing The Gospel of John, I don't think I could have been convinced that the world needed yet another Bible movie, much less a three-hour epic based word-for-word on the text of the fourth gospel. However,...

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September 1, 2003 Few clean hands in these laundries

A few years ago, a so-called "secondary virginity" campaign was making the rounds in high schools and on university campuses. One of the campaign's particularly perverse rituals involved the symbolic...

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April 1, 2003 Film follows girls on their long walk home

Wherever colonialism went the children suffered the most. In Canada some call it the "big scoop" and in Australia it's known as the "stolen generations." The Australian movie Rabbit Proof Fence does an admirable job of telling...

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