The U.S. media has run yet another in a long line of pro-abortion polemics. This time it was Abortion Denied: Shattering Young Women’s Lives, a half-hour pseudo-documentary, produced by the Feminist majority organization. It was aired December 7, on Ted Turner’s Atlanta-based TBS Cable Network. The program is a hysterical attack on ‘parental consent laws,’ and the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision [...]
In this issue, The Interim’s Dr. David Dooley reviews the much-hailed film “The Handmaid’s Tale” It is closely based on a book by Margeret Atwood – grande dame of the ‘Can Lit’ (Canadian literature) establishment. Like the late Marion Engel and Margaret Laurence and others who make up the elite of Canadian writers, Atwood’s anti-life ideology is self0evident. The Handmaid’s Tale, in [...]
“The Last Temptation of Jesus Christ,” a 1988 low-budget film by Hollywood standards, proved to be a low grosser as well, according to Larry Cohen, film editor of Variety, the entertainment trade journal published in New York. Mr. Cohen said that it cost six and a half million dollars to make and its actual earnings to date in the United States and [...]
The full-page ads make it seem sinful not to succumb to the temptation of seeing the most controversial film of recent times. It is praised as “deeply felt and ultimately faith affirming,” “as spiritual and involving a film as you are likely to see this year,” “one of the most serious, literate, complex and deeply felt religious films ever made.” Jay Scott [...]
Now available for rental or purchase, The Kidnapping of Baby John Doe, is a Canadian video, written, directed and produced by the pro-life husband and wife team, Patricia and Peter Gerretsen. Inspired by the true story of Baby John Doe in Bloomington, Indians, the movie exposes the empty rhetoric of those who argue that “quality of life” is an acceptable excuse to [...]
If you have to crawl – or be carried – go and see The Mission a spectacular – thrilling – action-packed film with a spiritual message. Wrongly called an ‘epic film’ – shades of John Wayne – it’s a magnificent story of bravery and dedication – (and almost completely beyond the intelligence of some of our local critics who [...]
Film Studio D, the Women’s Studio of the National Film Board has done it again. Their latest project, viewed for the first time, in Toronto on December 1, 1984, is called “Behind the Veil.” Willing participants who provided fuel from within the ranks for this attack upon the “Male, Patriarchal, Sexist” Catholic Church were Sisters Ann Carr, [...]