Just In Time For Christmas

As a British teacher rots in a Sudanese prison awaiting her 40 lashes (shades of Prisoner of the Mahdi) for the horrific crime of naming a teddy Mohammed, Hollywood timely as always presents an allegorical children's tale about the evils of......Christianity.

Though some think the film isn't anti-Christian enough...

'It was clear right from the start that the makers of this film intended to take out the anti-religious elements of Pullman's book,' said Terry Sanderson, president of the society. 'In doing that they are taking the heart out of it, losing the point of it, castrating it. It seems that religion has now completely conquered America's cultural life and it is much the poorer for it. What a shame that we have to endure such censorship here too.'