An interesting, well-written article.

I can't comment on Roots as I've never seen it (I'm a film person, not TV).

The Godfather and The Godfather Part II are two of my all-time favourites. I wrote this piece and this piece on each film fairly recently, if you're interested. I personally don't see how they can be read as anything other than a condemnation of the culture they depict (including all the ghastly business/corporate stuff about it not being personal, etc, that you get into here). There is a difference between depicting something and endorsing something, but that isn't to say the films aren't taken the way you describe by some audiences.

I don't disagree on The Ten Commandments (and Hollywood biblical epics in general) but I still enjoy it. Bloody long film though. I prefer The Prince of Egypt. :)

With Wall Street, again I can't help thinking this film is a condemnation of everything you say it glamourises. Certainly not one person I've met in the UK thinks it endorses that greed is good philosophy.

Death Wish on the other hand is genuinely repugnant, with a clearly fascist ideology. I don't dispute that at all.