The PBS docudrama Bonhoeffer: Agent of Grace airs tonight on PBS. The Associated Press calls it "respectful" and "chilling," pointing out that the moments it takes liberty with historical facts are few and justified (the film has him being executed alone instead of with two coconspirators because a triple execution risked echoing Christ's crucifixion).

Kirk Cameron, who stars, doesn't want it called such. But Rebecca Eckler of Canada's National Post (the film is being shot in Toronto) writes, "The 'bad idea' may not be calling Left Behind a Christian film, so much as believing that Christian films only appeal to Christians." That's the trick. "I'm lost just reading the storyline," she writes. The Post has some interesting quotes from several folks working on the film, most of whom are Christians. But perhaps the most interesting are from the film's director, Victor Sarin, who's not a Christian and hasn't even read Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins's book. "'I'm an outsider," he says. "I didn't want to be biased with the so-called Christian look. It's OK to have a message as long as that message is delivered with integrity and gives people food for thought. We all know that it's a message film. What matters is how that message is delivered. I don't want it to be preachy."

[When was the last time we could comment on three very different Christian films?] Something to Sing About, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association's first film aimed at an African-American audience, premiered at the Acapulco Black Film Festival. It gets attention in this week's Newsweek, which says the film inspired "black ...