James Bowman
A Merry War is the American title given to the adaptation by Robert Bierman (director) and Alan Plater (writer) of…
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The Mighty directed by Peter Chelsom and based on the novel by Rodman Philbrick, is at least an improvement annoying…
One True Thing, directed by the excellent Carl Franklin (Devil in the Blue Dress and that Arkansas movie with Billy…
Permanent Midnight, written and directed by David Veloz and based on the autobiographical book by Jerry Stahl is chiefly notable…
Pi, directed by Darren Aronofsky, is another chapter in the popular culture’s love affair with flashy intelligence—or at least the…
Ronin is directed by John Frankenheimer and is named after the masterless warriors in feudal Japan who, having lost face…
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…