... to show their utter lack of appreciation for animation as an art form. Or they can see what film critics across the country saw. They can decide that cartoons are just for the kids. Or they can get what the L.A. Film Critics, the Chicago Film Critics, the Online

The LA Times reports what happened behind the scenes that led to Disney throwing Aslan out of the Magic Kingdom.

In 2001, I surveyed film reviewers and moviegoers who are professing Christians, and I asked them about nudity, violence, and foul language in the movies. Are they ever appropriate? Or is it all pornography and gratuitous debauchery? What exactly is a "Christian perspective" on such things? These articles

This article was originally published at Christianity Today in July 2001. ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Working daily in downtown Seattle, I find myself exposed to harsh language all the time, whether in business meetings or walking through a gang of kids on the sidewalk. Later, as I accelerate through rush-hour traffic, I discover that

This article was originally published at Christianity Today in August 2001. •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• You have probably seen the episode of Friends in which Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow) bounces into the living room to find her pals watching the tragic conclusion of Old Yeller. She exclaims, "Why are you guys so upset? It&

This article was originally published in 2001 at Christianity Today in July 2001. •••••••••••••••••••••••• Many Looking Closer readers and visitors to Film Forum (my Thursday column at Christianity Today) persist in telling me that Christians have no place at R-rated movies. If you ask them why, they'll usually agree