James Bowman
In olden times, if you can remember back so far, Hollywood would use its wonderful technological wizardry in order to…
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Sweet Home Alabama is a mess, but a curious one. For a start, Candice Bergen does a turn as a…
The press material for The Four Feathers, Shekhar Kapur’s remake, 63 years on from the last remake, of A.E.W. Mason’s…
Both “secret” and “sex” are suggested by the very name of “secretary” and the job description carries within it what…
At one point in Barbershop, the old barber Eddie (Cedric the Entertainer) who never seems to cut any hair but…
One might have hoped that Stealing Harvard, written by Peter Tolan and Martin Hynes and directed by Bruce McCulloch (one…
As more than 60 per cent of America’s young adults go off to college this time of year, it is…
The Wall Street Journal / September 6, 2002
In the July/August number of the American Spectator I wrote a piece (“Teaching the Gorillas”) about the curious phenomenon of…
Here is the story we are asked to accept as the basis for the plot of Serving Sara, directed by…
Neil LaBute’s adaptation of A.S. Byatt’s novel, Possession, is a real disappointment. LaBute has the enviable quality in a director…
Sur Mes Lèvres (Read My Lips), directed by Jacques Audiard is a typically French but quite watchable exploration of the…
Secret Ballot (Raye makhfi) is, like nearly every Iranian film I have ever seen, visually mesmerizing. Perhaps Iran itself is…