James Bowman

All the review of The Iron Lady that you really need is to be found in the headline to a…

There is, so I’m told, a species of genre fiction known in the trade as “young adult” — intended for…

Although I didn’t much care for Tomas Alfredson’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, I should begin by giving it its due….

Here’s what I liked about David Cronenberg’s new movie, A Dangerous Method, loosely based on the early history of psychoanalysis…

Asked to show my concern for a victim of sex addiction, I am minded to reply with the guy who…

The English word melancholy and its cognates in other European languages comes from the Greek for “black bile,” one of…

To say that someone has been unfaithful is now to imply a breach only of sexual fidelity, but there are…

ONCE IT COULD HAVE have been said that, like Willie Nelson’s, Hollywood’s heroes have always been cowboys, though they obviously…

One reason why Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane always comes top in critics’ picks of the best movies ever made in…

Not this again! Over fourteen years ago, I reviewed the late Joe Sobran’s book Alias Shakespeare for the Washington Times and…