James Bowman
I tried very hard to like Henry Fool by Hal Hartley and was intermittently successful, but I found it in…
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How Stella Got Her Groove Back, directed by Kevin Rodney Sullivan from a screenplay by Terry McMillan and Ron Bass…
The American distributors who refused an American market to Adrian Lyne’s new film version of Lolita until it was already…
Marie Baie Des Anges by Manual Pradal stars Vahina Giocante as 15 year old Marie and Frederic Malgras as her…
Next Stop, Wonderland, written and directed by Brad Anderson, is a charming romantic comedy with a great many funny moments,…
The Parent Trap, directed by Nancy Meyers, is an intermittently charming remake of the Disney classic of 1961 which starred…
Polish Wedding, written and directed by Theresa Connolly is a relentlessly life-affirming story about a Polish family in Hamtramck, Michigan,…
Regeneration directed by Gillies Mackinnon from a screenplay by Allan Scott and based on the novel by Pat Barker is…
Rather like Safe Men, Return to Paradise, directed by Joseph Ruben (Sleeping With the Enemy, Money Train), is worth seeing…
Safe Men written and directed by John Hamburg is that rare thing, a Tarantino-clone that nevertheless manages to be rather…
The Slums of Beverly Hills, written and directed by Tamara Jenkins is another meditation on family, this time the highly…