James Bowman

But nowadays juvenility is no longer limited to the young, which may be why Mr. Waititi has to extend his casting reach all the way to 69-year-old Sam Neill to find an adult who is adult enough to take Ricky in hand and at least start the process of turning him into a man.

When you must you can’t; when you can’t, you must. This view of falling in love could be the “message”…

One of the most depressing statistics I have ever read came out of a survey of British funeral directors a…

Near the beginning of Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg’s “Weiner,” one of the film-makers asks their subject, the allegedly “disgraced” ex-congressman Anthony Weiner who, in 2013, decided to run for mayor of New York City, if his wife, Huma Abedin, had wanted him to get back into politics. He says that she did because “She was very eager to get her life back that I had taken from her.” Or, as one enthusiastic critic summed it up: Ms. Abedin was “a fellow political animal who felt, as he did, that another race would be the only way their lives could return to normal.” There, in a nutshell, lies the essential phoniness at the heart of this film.

Mr. Stillman, an old friend of The American Spectator, must have seen it as a challenge to make a movie so much against the grain of the familiar genre of costume drama as to feature a heroine with whom his female audience will presumably not want to identify themselves.

This year for the eighth summer in succession I presented—along with free pizza—a collection of old movies on a theme….

The exhortation in the title of Dinesh D’Souza’s new movie — America: Imagine the World Without Her — suggests that…

Recently, my wife and I attended a performance of Mozart’s Magic Flute—which is what German speakers call a Singspiel opera,…

It’s hard to imagine anything more different from Pawel Pawlikowski’s wonderful My Summer of Love (2005) than his new film, but…

My obituary’s written,” a tearful but paradoxical Eliot Spitzer told Vanity Fair a year or two after his forced resignation as governor…