by Cliff Vaughn | Jan 25, 2008 | Opinion
Jesus appeared on movie screens four years ago in Mel Gibson’s controversial “The Passion of the Christ.” Jesus is back at the cinema, but this time Islam—not Christianity—provides the lens. “Jesus, Spirit of God,” from Iranian filmmaker...
by Cliff Vaughn | Jan 21, 2008 | Opinion
On Jan. 2, 1965, Martin Luther King Jr. led a “mass meeting” at Brown Chapel in Selma, Ala. This meeting kicked off the involvement of King’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference in Selma’s voting rights campaign. King had already survived...
by Cliff Vaughn | Jan 18, 2008 | Opinion
The Camp David Accords matter to the film because almost 30 years later Carter is still embroiled in the issue of Middle East peace. This man from Plains—who reads his Bible each night and tells visitors to his church that “you don’t have to believe about...
by Cliff Vaughn | Dec 25, 2007 | Opinion
You don’t have to know much about propositions, resolutions and fallacies to appreciate “The Great Debaters,” which opens Christmas Day.Denzel Washington, who also directed the picture, stars as Mel Tolson, a professor at the African-American Wiley...
by Cliff Vaughn | Dec 21, 2007 | Opinion
Treasure protector Benjamin Franklin Gates returns in “National Treasure: Book of Secrets,” which opens nationwide today. While the original clicked like a precision-made Chinese puzzle box, this one grinds along on star power, brilliant flashes and some...
