James Bowman
Though I am not, curiously, tortured with guilt about it, I confess to a prejudice. I don’t like acting. Or…
Not many years since, it would have seemed impossible for an American director with a popular following and a career…
We live in an age of parody. Parody men, parody women, parody marriage, parody politicians, parody scholars, parody movies, parody…
It’s depressing that all the reviews, pro or con, of Mel Gibson’s Hacksaw Ridge seem to have felt constrained to…
One of the running gags in The Simpsons has to do with Homer’s mother, who left Abe Simpson when Homer…
Whatever else it does or doesn’t do, Clint Eastwood’s Sully makes an interesting case study for those of us who…
The headline to the Los Angeles Times review of Hell or High Water reads as follows: “When the banks steal…
One of the more subtle bits of humor in Stephen Frears’s Florence Foster Jenkins, based with reasonable fidelity on a…
Dinesh D’Souza’s latest documentary, Hillary’s America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party, suffers from the same drawback as his…
It seems to me entirely appropriate that the title of Captain Fantastic, otherwise far from clear in meaning, makes Matt…
