Guardian angel serve as an Hypothesis to salve many doubts, whereof common Philosophy affordeth no solution: By the 19th century, the guardian angel was no longer viewed in Anglophone lands as an intercessory figure, but rather as a force protecting the believer from performing sin. A parody appears in Byron's "Don Juan": "Her guardian angel had given up his garrison" (Canto I, xvii). Clarence Odbody, the guardian angel in the 1946 film "It's a Wonderful Life", "earned his wings" through bringing awareness that life was worth living to the film's protagonist, George Bailey. Guardian angel A guardian angel is an angel that
Frontier(s) on DVD the following week. "Frontière(s)" was released in France on 23 January 2008. Manohla Dargis of "The New York Times" praised the film, writing: "There’s enough blood in the unrated French horror film "Frontier(s)" to satiate even the most ravenous gore hounds. The real surprise here is that this creepy, contemporary gross-out also has some ideas, visual and otherwise, wedged among its sanguineous drips, swaying meat hooks and whirring table saw." Peter Bradshaw of "The Guardian" awarded the film two out of five stars, calling it "One for hardcore fans only." Writing for "The Village Voice", Jim Ridley noted: