James Bowman
John Frankenheimer’s new movie, Reindeer Games, for which Ehren Kruger (Arlington Road) wrote the screenplay, is in some ways an…
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Titus, written and directed by Julie Taymore, is a revelation. Like most students of Shakespeare, I had always thought Titus…
John D. Mueller
In October, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics to Robert A. Mundell. The Nobel…
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At the beginning of Anna and the King, directed by Andy Tennant and adapted by Steve Meerson from The English…
Oliver Stone’s latest, Any Given Sunday, is not for those, like me, who are put off by the Oliver Stone’s…
The Cider House Rules, directed by Lasse Hallström, is the inspiring tale of an abortionist, Dr. Wilbur Larch (Michael Caine),…
Cradle Will Rock is a huge disappointment—nothing but a vanity project for Tim Robbins, who wrote and directed it. It’s…
There is a scene in Neil Jordan’s adaptation of Graham Greene’s The End of the Affair in which the hero,…
I didn’t bother going to see Fight Club when it came out in October because, having seen Seven and The…
Galaxy Quest, directed by Dean Parisot and written by Robert Gordon and David Howard is a hilariously funny spoof of…
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…