James Bowman
Harold Ramis is a fine comic writer-director, and his Groundhog Day will go down in cinematic history as one of…
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Like Waiting for Guffman, which Christopher Guest directed and starred in four years ago, his new movie, Best in Show…
The 12 year-old eponymous hero of Stephen Daldry’s Billy Elliot, played by Jamie Bell, is made to say more than…
The iron rule in Hollywood is that if you’ve got a hit, you’ve got to have a sequel. But what…
The Contender, written and directed by Rod Lurie, is yet another example of Hollywood’s idea of politics and even more…
Rachel Leigh Cook is not only beautiful but she must be the greatest actress of her generation. How else to…
Here are the good things about The Legend of Bagger Vance, written by Jeremy Leven from the novel by Steven…
Having once lived in the area served by Channel 6 (Harrisburg, York, Lancaster, Lebanon), where Russ Richards (John Travolta) works…
Pay it Forward by Mimi Leder is meant to be another in what I take to be a new series…
Requiem for a Dream, directed by Darren Aronofsky (Pi) from a script he wrote with Hubert Selby, Jr. (Last Exit…
Michael Cromartie
Christina Hoff Sommers was a professor of philosophy at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, when her first book, Who Stole…
Books & Culture / September 1, 2000
Almost Famous begins in 1969 with a literary discussion about Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird between a precocious eleven…