Director Kenneth Branagh continues to work his way through the Shakespeare cannon playing opposite his wife Emma Thompson again in this comedy classic. The interplay between Branagh, who plays Benedick, and Thompson, who is a marvelous Beatrice, alone makes this movie worth watching. Branagh sets this comedy in a villa in the luscious Tuscany countryside in the summer. The scene evokes the [...]
Explaining the STD crisis Risky Sex is one national bestseller that should be in every public and high school library. It isn’t a steamy romance. Just read its subtitle: “The Onslaught of Sexually Transmitted Diseases.” Yet teens and adults are grabbing this book. The humourous illustrations beak the ice but it is Genuis’ combination of knowledge and compassion that wins the day. [...]
Canadian courts flex new muscle over abortion debate Near the end of a 1989 appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada, Henry Morgentaler was holding court in a hotel room with the cream of Canada’s media elite. “The tone was informal,” says F.L. Morton in his wide-ranging study, Morgentaler V. Borowski: Abortion, the Charter and the Courts. “The reporters chatted and joked [...]
Unforgiven didn’t just win the Academy Award for best picture this year. It deserved to win. (How many times can you say that about a movie?) But if you’re looking for an old-fashioned good guy/bad guy/gunbattle-at-high-noon western—even of the vintage Eastwood “spaghetti” variety—forget it! Unforgiven will seem like accidentally picking up Dostoyevsky when you wanted Jack London. Clint Eastwood’s character—a widowered pig [...]
The story line of A Few Good Men is hardly novel: the macho world of the U.S. Marines with its own code of morality. When two young privates are court-martialed after killing one of their peers, a crusading attorney with the Navy’s Internal Affairs (Demi Moore) suspects the truth will be hidden with a cover-up. She makes it her mission to provoke [...]
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Over the past few months we have received some requests that The Interim begin a Movie Guide section. In this feature, we will help our readers pick entertaining movies and try to recommend those which are suitable for family viewing. Our scope will include first-run movies as well as those available on video-cassette. In a short write-up, the reviewers will not only [...]
How many times have you taken your kids to a movie, or rented a video for them, only to be shocked by the gratuitous sex, violence and profanity that seem to have become so common in today’s films? It’s getting more and more difficult to find good movies these days; movies that both your whole family can enjoy, and that don’t put [...]
Whatever happened to Joe Borowski? It’s one of the most common questions pro-lifers ask of the man who almost single-handedly took on the Canadian system in a monumental battle for the unborn. From being on the leading edge of the pro-life battle for almost two decades, Borowski seems to many to have fallen off the face of the earth. “I’m not dead,” [...]
Ethics for High Schools By Leonard A. Kennedy Toronto: Life ethics Centre, 50 pages; soft cover; 1992, $2.00 In recent years, there has been an emphasis on students developing their own moral outlook through the analysis of ethical dilemmas, values clarification, and similar methods. In his short and readable booklet, however, Father Kennedy teaches that there is such a thing as objective [...]
Two years ago, York University professor and Olympic athlete William Gairdner surprised the Canadian political establishment with a trenchant and dramatic attack on its collectivist ideology. The Trouble with Canada: A Citizen Speaks Out lambasted the Canadian government, arguing that its emphasis on “top down” socialism and its concern with special interest groups had crippled popular democracy and eroded human rights and [...]
Condom Sense: Questions and Answer Ontario Ministry of Health June 1992, In English and French, illustrated, 32 pp. Reviewed by: David Dooley, The Interim For all I know, Frances Lankin may be as scrupulous in her private life as she is unscrupulous in her public. As we do know, she has no qualms about funding Henry Morgentaler’s unsavoury business; she has no [...]
“Prenatal human beings, even at the earliest stages of life, should be treated with appropriate respect as members of the human family and not viewed as commodities.” For years Prof. Donald De Marco has been pointing out the damage to personal relationships which may result from the new reproductive technology. Fatherhood and in-vitro babies What happens to the concept of fatherhood, for [...]
This issue goes far beyond musical tastes because today much popular music is radically different from that of previous generations. The difference that much of today’s music has words and themes which openly emphasize and encourage such things as immoral sexual experiences and the use of drugs. Some songs, in fact, even have strong Satanic or occult themes. This cannot be overlooked [...]
Andrew Kimbrell (New York, Harper Collins, 1993, pp 305, $29.50) Selling ourselves piece by piece In The Human Body Shop, Andrew Kimbrell has taken on the kind of challenge that would send most writers running for an ice pack and a darkened room. Not only has he set out to explain advances in medical and biological technologies to the non-scientist, but he [...]