James Bowman
8mm, directed by Joel Schumacher stars Nicholas Cage as Tom Wells, a private investigator engaged by an elderly widow to…
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God Said, “Ha!” written, directed and performed by Julia Sweeney, formerly the androgynous “Pat” on “Saturday Night Live,” is a…
Hands on a Hard Body by S.R. Bindler is a documentary about a contest, held annually in Longview, Texas, by…
The Harmonists, directed by Joseph Vilsmaier, is the “based-on-a-true story” story of The Comedian Harmonists, an immensely popular singing group…
The Other Sister, directed by Garry Marshall, tells the story of Carla Tate (Juliette Lewis), a young woman of 22…
Payback is directed by Brian Helgeland, who was one of the writers involved in L.A. Confidential, and, like that film,…
The Winners, a documentary by Paul Cohen, tells the story of four former winners and one third place finisher in…
Michael Cromartie
Michael Cromartie interviewed scholar Paul Vitz about Freud and his legacy. Vitz is professor of psychology at New York University….
Books & Culture / January 1, 1999
Blast from the Past, directed by Hugh Wilson, is a charming, funny, well-crafted and even touching comedy that deserves the…
Children of Heaven by the Iranian director, Majid Majidi is a little gem of the film of the sort which…
A Civil Action, directed by Steven Zaillian, is not, as I expected it to be, another of those God-awful Grisham…