James Bowman
Ronin is directed by John Frankenheimer and is named after the masterless warriors in feudal Japan who, having lost face…
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Rounders directed by John Dahl is wish-fulfilment fantasy of a different sort from that of Let’s Talk About Sex. This…
Simon Birch, written and directed by Mark Steven Johnson with a “suggested by” credit to John Irving for A Prayer…
Orson Welles’s Touch of Evil, made in1957 and now restored according to a memo of protest Welles wrote to Universal…
Unmade Beds by Nicholas Barker is the sort of picture I would normally hate: a kind of heightened documentary that…
You know when, in the course of watching The Avengers by Jeremiah Chechnik, you see Uma Thurman grappling with herself,…
The Best Man, written and directed (in Italian) by Pupi Avati begins by solemnly informing us that “Once upon a…
It is not a particularly original or even, necessarily, interesting observation that marriage, like other symbiotic relationships, is often a…
The movies have in the past found it profitable to cater for almost every kind of paranoia there is. The…
I tried very hard to like Henry Fool by Hal Hartley and was intermittently successful, but I found it in…
How Stella Got Her Groove Back, directed by Kevin Rodney Sullivan from a screenplay by Terry McMillan and Ron Bass…