James Bowman
Galaxy Quest, directed by Dean Parisot and written by Robert Gordon and David Howard is a hilariously funny spoof of…
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Everything that is important in Girl, Interrupted, directed by James Mangold and based on the memoir by Suzanna Kaysen, can…
What is it about Frank Darabont and prisons? Or, for that matter, Stephen King and prisons? Having already idealized prison…
In The Hurricane, Norman Jewison is going through the motions. His film takes an ostensibly true story which also conforms…
Magnolia, written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, is like David O. Russell’s Three Kings in being an impressive display…
Play It To the Bone, directed by Ron Shelton, is a Woody Harrelson movie in every sense of the term…
In Ride With the Devil, the great Taiwanese director Ang Lee shows once again that he has a kind of…
There’s no question that Shine director Scott Hicks’s Snow Falling on Cedars is well-named. The weather — not only snow…
Woody Allen’s Sweet and Lowdown could be said to be a loving, autumnal tribute to the two great passions of…
As I watched Anthony Minghella’s adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s novel, The Talented Mr. Ripley, I kept asking myself why this…
Like David Lynch in The Straight Story, Mike Leigh apparently thought it was time to surprise us with Topsy-Turvy. Instead…
Tumbleweeds, in spite of a superficial similarity to Anywhere But Here and a virtuoso performance by Janet McTeer in the…