AboutNell Minow Expertise Movies, especially classic movies, current movies, family movies, and movies for families.
Experience I am the movie critic for Beliefnet and radio stations across the country. I have written about movies for USA Today, the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun Times, Parents, Family Fun, Child, Slate, and Daughters. I am the weekly movie critic for radio stations across the US and in Canada and write weekly parental advisories for the Chicago Sun-Times and the Kansas City Star. I have appeared on Fox Morning News, the ABC Evening News, CBS This Morning, and NPR, and been profiled in the NY Times, Washingtonian, Chicago Magazine, and the Chicago Tribune. My book, The Movie Mom's Guide to Family Movies, was published by Avon in April 1999 and is now in its second edition. I can answer questions about movies for special interests, especially family concerns, handling questions from kids like "What do I do when he says everyone else has seen it?" to "My daughter got nightmares from a movie --how can I help her?" or "Why does my child want to see the DVD over and over?" to "What's the deal with Pokemon?" I am pretty good with trivia questions about movies, too, not as good with made-for-TV movies or miniseries. And I don't know much about horror/slasher films, sorry.
Organizations Broadcast, Online, and Washington DC film critics associations
Publications The Movie Mom's Guide to Family Movies, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, USA Today, The Practical Guide to Practically Everything
Awards and Honors Roger Ebert's "Thumbs Up" award, presenter at Ebertfest and the Tallgrass Film Festival
Question Hi in this movie did he really take the bribe or did he admit he did to say the kids life i think he did a few of my friends are fighting over this they think he just said it to save the boys life.
please let me know
Answer He really did take the bribe. At first, I thought he was just saying it to save the boy's life. But the fact that he never actually denied having taken it -- he only said nothing had been proven -- and that he said what his wife's reaction was, and that the mayor had to expunge his record, showed that he really did take it.
