James Bowman
Americans must have something of a love-hate relationship with their material goods. Just look at how they routinely refer to…
In one scene of Spencer Susser’s movie, Hesher, a teacher lectures a classroom full of 12 year-olds, including the film’s…
Some people will like There Be Dragons by Roland Joffe (The Killing Fields, The Mission) because it is something of…
When I was a boy, my mother wouldn’t let me read comic books for an unusual reason. At least it’s…
An example of the violation of the law of Chekhov’s gun that I mentioned in a recent review — that…
Winter in Wartime (Oorlogswinter) by the Dutch director Martin Koolhoven is really less about either winter or wartime than it…
Not long ago I went to a recital at the Kennedy Center in Washington by the mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, a…
In the last three months, I have seen three movies better than anything seen in the previous three years —…
There’s been rather a fuss in the British media lately over the teaching of history in schools. Niall Ferguson, professor…
Movies, we sometimes have to remind ourselves, are a pre-eminently visual medium, and this always means that there are certain…
