Mom's Night Out

          Roger Ebert began his review of the newly released film Mom's Night Out as "Depressingly regressive and borderline dangerous..." Well it is dangerous, I laughed so hard I thought my jaw had locked. I choked and spit some popcorn into the row in front of us......downright dangerous!
But that's not what the film critic Roger Ebert had in mind. He's worried that mothers who see this might be content to stay at home. It could turn into the domino theory....the next thing you know young girls wouldn't want to pull the trigger on an M-60 for a living or pound their dainty fist on the boardroom table anymore. I don't remember the last time film critics were so concerned about the societal repercussions of films they reviewed, and the concern here was that the film might keep mothers from going...."out on the town."
          Gruesome serial murders are OK but stay at home moms are not. Hideous, haunting demonic creatures are fine but a mom mentioning God isn't. A cadaver is informative but a Bible study is regressive, lip-locking Liposuction kissing is normal but two pairs of lips meeting without any tongue inspection of upper and lower molars is odd.....well....you get the point.
          Roger Ebert gave Mom's Night Out one and a half stars out of four but the 1977 film Looking For Mr. Goodbar about a woman who continually went...out on the town... garnered three stars and the description was "very much worth seeing." Silence Of The Lambs was worth four stars.....well....bon appetit.
          The real issue here is not that the film, Mom's Night Out, is getting panned in some places, the issue is part and parcel of the real regressive and dangerous problem we are experiencing in America today, that being... constant coverups, biased news reporting, lying, academic intimidation, skewered statistical data and the all-encompassing, phobia evoking and fear invoking hatred of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, authority of the written Word of God and all the accompanying guilt that paralyzes with fear at the mere mention of that mythical, destructive, inhibiting bogeyman called sin.