Megan Basham began her career as a film critic reviewing movies for her campus paper at Arizona State University. After graduating with a degree in English Literature, she took a position with The University of Phoenix as an adult curriculum editor. After two years of editing some of the driest, most convoluted material ever printed on paper (like philosophy curricula written by lawyers), she broke out of cubicle purgatory by writing freelance articles for Focus on the Family, Catholic Exchange, and Range Magazine.A short time later she began reviewing films Christ Church of the Valley in Phoenix, Arizona to publish in its weekly newsletter. This led to becoming a staff writer for Christian Spotlight on Entertainment and access to interviews with celebrities like Morgan Freeman, Holly Hunter, Liv Tyler and Orlando Bloom.In 2004 Megan was awarded a Phillips Foundation Journalism Fellowship for a work titled “The Parable Principle: How Liberal Ideologues Use Film to Control Political Discourse.” In addition to reviewing films for Townhall and maintaining her own blog, she is also a contributor to National Review Online. Her work has also appeared at The Weekly Standard, The American Spectator Online and in The Washington Times.Megan is currently at work on the book Behind Every Successful Man: How to Help Your Husband Create the Career of His Dreams. 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ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Sun, 05 Oct 2008 00:35:22 GMT Sun, 05 Oct 2008 00:35:22 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ Not long ago, Leslie Bennetts, author of an infamous tome warning mothers that failing to work fulltime for the entirety of their lives is sure to leave them eating dog food out of tin cans, feigned shock when at-home... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MeganBasham/2008/10/04/young_women's_choices_and_old_feminists'_rage 8bb6ecbe-cb08-4c2f-8813-abdda4671428 Sun, 05 Oct 2008 00:35:22 GMT The Obama campaign and their friends in the media are finally starting to admit that Republicans have gotten some things right. Not just in the last few days but also in the last few years. After John McCain gave what... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MeganBasham/2008/09/06/republican_successes_are_not_accidents 9f03627d-ec4a-4919-aeee-2bdbd3aa201c Sat, 06 Sep 2008 17:29:41 GMT Some good news was released from the mommy war front last week. Though The Today Show and Good Morning America frequently fill time by throwing stay-at-home mothers and working moms into the ring to duke it out for... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MeganBasham/2007/07/20/common_ground_in_the_mommy_wars 8da684db-0e3c-47f9-a000-41f971543585 Fri, 20 Jul 2007 04:00:00 GMT Last year, in response to the increasing numbers of women opting out of the workforce, author Linda Hirshman took to the morning shows proclaiming women demean themselves by becoming fulltime mothers. No matter how much http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MeganBasham/2007/05/25/stay-at-home_economics 9feffa0b-fc54-4866-88d6-084eb3411d91 Fri, 25 May 2007 04:01:00 GMT Since the New York Times lit the fuse on the opt-out debate in 2003-reporting that a growing number of married, professional women are permanently or temporarily opting out of full-time jobs-feminist reaction has ranged http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MeganBasham/2007/04/18/feminism's_'extreme'_solution_to_the_opt-out_revolution 252aa655-3adb-45e1-82a4-6493b7fe055f Wed, 18 Apr 2007 04:01:00 GMT After bringing in more than $70 million in its opening weekend, comic book adaptation 300 made history as the highest grossing film debut for the month of March and the third highest opening for an R-rated movie (after... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MeganBasham/2007/03/15/300_is_more_than_a_bloody_tale_of_good_versus_evil 59afcb8d-7017-42b5-b15b-3926265e8e50 Thu, 15 Mar 2007 15:52:17 GMT It's been over 30 years since Katherine Paterson, a former missionary and wife of a pastor, put pen to paper to write Bridge to Terabithia. Yet even though her beloved Newberry award-winning novel seems tailor-made for... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MeganBasham/2007/02/16/a_refreshing_match_made_in_hollywood 8b8a5bba-6cb2-4d2b-9dec-40aa9c499456 Fri, 16 Feb 2007 05:00:01 GMT Almost half a million fewer women tuned into the big three morning shows this season compared to last. And though that number may not be devastating to ABC, CBS, and NBC just yet, the 10 percent drop off is making... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MeganBasham/2007/02/13/morning_show_retreat 19c52d83-0575-4b89-bb69-d00303d12e84 Tue, 13 Feb 2007 21:22:40 GMT In a rare example of journalistic integrity, CNN correspondent Rick Sanchez actually called A-list actress Charlize Theron (most famous for her Oscar-winning portrayal of serial killer Eileen Aileen Wuornos in the film... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MeganBasham/2007/02/08/oscar-winning_monster_mouths_off dd8f3fb1-f20f-4964-99fc-f47b1d577907 Thu, 08 Feb 2007 05:00:01 GMT It has become yet another heralding of "the most wonderful time of the year." Along with the temporary inclusion of Bing Crosby and Burl Ives into light rock radio formats, holiday sales, and cheerful family photograp http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MeganBasham/2006/12/19/a_little_perspective_on_the_war_on_christmas 9e8673c4-5fbd-499e-88ba-baaf52c56ab1 Tue, 19 Dec 2006 05:01:54 GMT It has been a long time coming, but Leonardo DiCaprio is finally all grown up-cinematically speaking, that is. However great his acting abilities, with the exception of 2002's Catch Me if You Can, his last few major... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MeganBasham/2006/10/06/dicaprio_grows_up f15dfb25-12f2-4e67-b00e-74322b1302f1 Fri, 06 Oct 2006 14:03:29 GMT Like a lot of conservative film critics, I was more than a little apprehensive to hear that anti-American conspiracy theorist Oliver Stone would be making a movie about 9/11. Fortunately, whatever his past cinematic... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MeganBasham/2006/08/14/conservatives_look_a_gift_film_in_the_mouth 79b2a4ec-c490-4745-ac19-2d77c7b19b7f Mon, 14 Aug 2006 05:02:53 GMT To a lot of Christians, the worst happened this weekend when their great crusader for faith in Hollywood took a very public, very appalling tumble from grace. To many others (read: rabid secularists and the press)... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MeganBasham/2006/07/31/gibsons_folly 98afddd6-416a-46d7-92c4-5b3967f77f81 Mon, 31 Jul 2006 18:01:00 GMT Watching M. Night Shyamalan's latest, Lady in the Water, one gets the distinct impression the writer/director must have just finished reading Rick Warren's best-seller, "The Purpose Driven Life," so intent is he on... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MeganBasham/2006/07/21/a_purpose-driven_fairy_tale da61f8ba-18fe-4f66-9f44-1954d21b9784 Fri, 21 Jul 2006 04:00:00 GMT This is one review in which I will never have to issue the warning, "Spoiler Alert". Oh, sure, I could reveal a few minor shifts and surprises, but it would be impossible to give away the ending to Pirates of the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MeganBasham/2006/07/11/pirates_ii_--_chaos_on_the_high_seas 9357ad90-32f3-445d-87a9-c833dd701d0f Tue, 11 Jul 2006 04:00:00 GMT