As one who spent several semesters studying film, I keep up my interest in this field of communication studies, though to purchase books on this genre is not cheap from good quality bookshops. It is a field where intelligent debate and different opinions should be the order of the day. It is an industry which apart from being a venue for money invested with the intention to secure healthy returns, touches on several other important spheres such as people's values, the shaping of society's mentality and how this impinges on what gets legislated, tolerated, outlawed, vilified or praised. Film-makers and writers including Philip Pullman should not be above corporate social responsibility.

After the atrocities of Nazism, with its acts against humanity, it is right and proper for countries not to allow the making of films glorifying this nihilistic ideology. Unfortunately, too many of the films critical of Nazism concentrate merely on the military defeat of Germany during World War II with not enough emphasis on the unspeakable experimentation and degradation of human beings reduced to wretches by Hitler's henchmen. Or the similar practices copied and "perfected" in the Soviet Union, China, Cuba, North Korea, Cambodia, Viet Cong and several other countries under the sway of communism (or other totalitarian and dictatorial one-party regimes be they of the left, right or of some fundamentalist sway). Similarly, in a world cast mindlessly adrift and tending towards destruction, be it nuclear, environmental, biotechnological or what have you, a steadying sane hand pointing out eternal truths which liberate men and women from savage passions should be praised not denigrated. A body dealing with the spiritual and which has admitted and apologised when its ministers and members exceed their brief.

The movie The Golden Compass starring Nicole Kidman and based on the trilogy of books by atheist Philip Pullman, of England, is geared towards kids. For me it is scandalous and merits what the Gospel prescribes for hijacking innocent minds to truth bending. Through this film children are enticed to denounce God and Heaven but he does it in such a subtle way that parents may not pick up what his true intentions are. In a 2003 interview, Mr Pullman said, "My books are about killing God."

I am saddened when reading the SCS guide that none of this is reported, thus not really being a guide one can trust.