James Bowman

There seems to be a recurring bifurcation in American political life between those who would rather be right and those…

Back in the go-go Sixties, it used to be thought that a moving camera gave movies the hallmark of reality….

Let’s stipulate at the outset that there probably are husbands as loathsome Earl (Jeremy Sisto) who are married to wives…

As a general rule, didacticism is never becoming in a movie, and this is even more true when the moral…

Michael Novak, the scholar and theologian, points to a particular medieval story — best known to English speakers as Chaucer’s…

“Posters were being put up in cities and towns across Germany yesterday,” reported the Times of London the other week,…

Memory belongs to what we might call the shake and bake school of movie making. That is, you take the…

Odd couples do not get much odder than Eric Rohmer and Chris Rock, but the latter’s new film, I Think…

Into Great Silence by the German film-maker Philip Groening had to wait 16 years to be made. He first wrote…

Maxed Out, James Scurlock’s documentary about the American way of debt, suffers from the usual problem with political documentaries these…