James Bowman
Three Kings, written and directed by David O. Russell begins with a quasi- documentary moment. We see, off in the…
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Every so often a reader writes asking me to lighten up, to stop looking so closely at the movies I…
Fred Barnes, writing in The Weekly Standard, tells us that he doesn’t go to the movies anymore, partly because he…
There are two perfect, transcendent moments in the Tale of Autumn, or Conte d’Automne, which is the fourth and perhaps…
Detroit Rock City, written by Carl V. Dupré and directed by Adam Rifkin, is a loathsome movie about which I…
Like most Hollywood attempts at satire, Dick, directed by Andrew Fleming, falls into the fatal trap of becoming too cozy…
When The Very Thought of You, directed by Nick Hamm from a screenplay by Peter Morgan, was released in Britain…
First westerns, then horror films, now gangster flicks: all the great Hollywood genres have been appropriated by the spoofters and…
Albert Brooks, more than any other Hollywood writer/director, is able to write satirically about Hollywood without at the same time…
Nights of Cabiria by Federico Fellini, recently re-released in a restored version, stars the great director’s wife, Giulietta Massina as…
Outside Providence, adapted from his own novel by Peter Farelly, with his brother, Bobby, and directed by Michael Corrente, is…