James Bowman
There’s a wonderful poem about adultery called “Story of a Hotel Room” by the mysterious English poet, Rosemary Tonks, which…
I’m old enough to be able to remember from my childhood my grandmother, born a few years after the death…
The central conceit of Griffin Dunne’s Fierce People, adapted from his own novel by Dirk Wittenborn, is derived from that…
Although I enjoyed Rod Hardy’s December Boys, which was adapted for the screen by Marc Rosenberg from a novel by…
“Let’s face it, if the mothers ruled the world, there would be no goddamned wars in the first place,” said…
Astronauts stand at the meeting point of heroism and celebrity. Like other explorers, they have to their credit genuine, real-world…
The Bothersome Man (Den Brysomme mannen) by the Norwegian director, Jens Lien, resembles an episode of The Twilight Zone but…
Anyone who, like me, is an admirer of Mr. Bean — the inspired, not-quite mute fuss-budget with the rubber face…
Nothing that’s happened in this summer’s Silly Season so far has amused me half so much as President Bush’s suddenly…
Anyone likely to be watching Becoming Jane, Julian Jarrold’s attempt to imagine a historical love affair between a young Jane…
