A good film journalist enters a motion picture without bias. It's not always easy, however, and we're most certainly human. More importantly, we're true movie lovers who cringe when a film falls woefully short and celebrate when there's a film that comes along that creates movie magic for our cynical hearts.
For me, the Paddington films are movie magic. I refuse to call them guilty pleasures, because there's not an ounce of guilt I feel for my love for all things Paddington and for the ways they transport me in ways few films ever have in my 20+ years of film journalism.
Book Review of the Week: The Anti-Greed Gospel by Malcolm Foley
The Anti-Greed Gospel" begins boldly as Foley establishes that we're in for a different sort of discussion. While acknowledging traditional views of racism, Foley makes it clear that what we're about to read is about Mammon, which Christians will know is preached against throughout Scripture. Foley dives in quickly to explain how race/racism has been created to justify exploitation and domination. To a painful extent, and for those particularly sensitive I'll note somewhat graphic one, Foley repeatedly visits the history of lynching as a post-slavery means by which control over African-Americans was inflicted.
