Publications

At the Cold War’s Center of Power

Ernest W. Lefever

The Color of Truth: McGeorge and William Bundy: Brothers in Arms (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1998, 496 pp.) In…

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American Beauty

James Bowman

Follow your bliss, middle-aged America! Quit your job, speak your mind, buy that muscle car you’ve always wanted. Start smoking…

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Astronaut’s Wife, The

James Bowman

The Astronaut’s Wife, by Rand Ravich, is like the Alien movies in being a kind of mythologization of modern female…

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Best Laid Plans

James Bowman

At one point in Best Laid Plans, written by Ted Griffin and directed by Mike Barker, two recent college graduates…

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Blue Streak

James Bowman

Blue Streak, directed by Les Mayfield, reminded me a little of the extremely disturbing Austrian film, Funny Games, reviewed here…

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Double Jeopardy

James Bowman

Double Jeopardy, directed by Bruce Beresford, is the latest example of what is coming to be one of Hollywood’s favorite…

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For Love of the Game

James Bowman

For Love of the Game, starring Kevin Costner as Billy Chapel, an aging pitcher for the Detroit Tigers who hopes…

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Love Stinks

James Bowman

Love Stinks is a nasty little film but, it might seem, something of a curiosity among recent Hollywood products in…

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Lucie Aubrac

James Bowman

Lucie Aubrac by Claude Berri (the great director of Jean de Florette and Manon of the Spring), is another illustration…

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Mystery, Alaska

James Bowman

Mystery, Alaska, directed by Jay Roach, aspires to be the Rocky of hockey. A small-town hockey team from Alaska (surely…

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Stigmata

James Bowman

So far, the strongest contender for worst movie of the year has got to be Stigmata, written by Tom Lazarus…

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Three Kings

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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