James Bowman
I tried very hard to like A Simple Plan, written by Scott B.Smith and directed by Sam (Evil Dead) Raimi,…
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Star Trek: Insurrection, directed by Jonathan Frakes, is another black- box movie — which is to say a movie that…
As Enchanted April showed a few years ago, Italy is the promised land for the cold, sexually-repressed, work- obsessed Englishman…
The most important question to be asked about Stepmom, directed by Chris Columbus, is why on earth Ed Harris was…
John D. Mueller
Exactly fifty years ago in the face of a huge budget surplus, a Republican Congress prevailed over the veto of…
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Orgazmo, written and directed by and starring Trey Parker, exploits the essential comedy in sex by bringing together the adult film industry and Mormonism — an unpromising combination, you might think, though the premiss is good for a few laughs before it sputters out about half way through.
Celebrity is the first good film Woody Allen has made since Husbands and Wives, though it’s still not all that…
Occasionally I go to see a film by a young independent director in the hopes of seeing some signs of…
Dancing at Lughnasa, written by Frank McGuinness from play by Brian Friel and directed by Pat O’Connor, stars Marvelous Meryl…
The thesis of Elizabeth, written by Michael Hirst and directed by Shekhar Kapur, is very simple— like the people that…
I expected Enemy of the State, directed by Tony Scott, to be one more document in the tedious succession of…