After Big Idea, the animation studio he started in his basement, went bankrupt, Phil Vischer had an epiphany (see "It's not about the dream"). He looked back and realized that while his immensely entertaining VeggieTales characters delighted kids and sold by the millions, they only taught children how to behave Christianly-they didn't teach them Christianity.

After two decades in nursing, Jennifer Lahl became a filmmaker. As founder and president of The Center for Bioethics and Culture, and executive producer, director, and writer, of the documentary film Eggsploitation (see the trailer below), she's exposing the dark underside of the fertility industry: Some egg donors face severe health risks and some persons created through anonymous sperm and egg donors cannot find out anything about their parents and the health risks they may face.

Rejoice & Shout begins with a voice belting "Amazing Grace" with the purity of a child and the depth of a seasoned performer. The voice belongs to a little girl sitting in a church pew surrounded by her family, carrying on a musical tradition centuries old. As one of the girl's gospel music forebears says, "Gospel music is what kept us going, gave us strength."

Brad Pitt and Terrence Malick debuted their new movie The Tree of Life last week at the Cannes Film Festival in France, picking up the event's top honor, the Palme d'Or. The deeply spiritual film has garnered wildly varied reactions from critics, with its epic scope that tries to address everything: creation, death, love, God, the Fall, and redemption. Critics may not agree on its meaning, but everyone certainly is talking about it.

In a film that blends paleontological wonders with existential pondering, Cave of Forgotten Dreams asks the question, "What constitutes humanness?" German director Werner Herzog creeps deep into Chauvet Cave in southern France, where researchers say they have found the earliest known cave paintings. The charcoal paintings etched on the curved walls of the cave-some say from 32,000 B.C., others say 10,000 B.C.-look as though someone scratched them there last week.

In American comedy, wives are scolds and husbands are hapless. In Exporting Raymond, Phil Rosenthal-executive producer of the sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond-introduces to Russia the harried Debra and henpecked Raymond Romano. As Rosenthal advises a Russian network on how to adapt the sitcom, he struggles to find a way to retain the premise-the squabbles of a disputatious but loving multigenerational family-and rework it for a different culture.

If the name Tom Shadyac doesn't ring a bell, chances are the names of his movies will. Ace Ventura, Bruce Almighty, and Patch Adams are a just a few of the films that have earned the writer/director enormous commercial if not critical success. His latest movie, I Am, is a documentary that seeks to determine what's wrong with the world and what can fix it. It marks a radical departure from his previous work.