James Bowman
Over the opening credits of the Coen brothers’ new movie, O Brother, Where Art Thou? we hear Harry McLintock singing…
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In The Pledge Sean Penn (director) and Jack Nicholson (star) have teamed up to give us a portrait of the…
What I liked about Pollock, directed by and starring Ed Harris, is that it really does convey an impression of…
Shadow of the Vampire, directed by E. Elias Merhige, is very slight but frequently entertaining, mainly because of the performance…
Here I make my declaration of faith: the single most important element in film is plot. This is because film…
Here are the good things about Traffic, Steven Soderbergh’s new and ambitious — and, indeed, epic-scale movie treatment of what is still here…
One tries to be fair, of course. I admit up front that I don’t much like either Matthew McConaughey or…
There are just enough good things about Cast Away by Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump, Contact, What Lies Beneath) to make…
You know you’re in trouble with a movie that begins as the camera pans over the spines of a pile…
At one point in Proof of Life, directed by Taylor Hackford, Alice Bowman (Meg Ryan) — who, by the way,…
Philip Kaufman’s Quills, based on a play by Doug Wright, who wrote the screenplay, is a perfect illustration of the…
Gekko No Sasayaki or “Moonlight Whispers” is a brilliant little Japanese film, written and directed by Akihiko Shiota, about young…