James Bowman
Peter Mayle was one of the first and has long been one of the most successful of what we might…
Say this for Cruel World, it certainly doesn’t try to ingratiate itself with its audience. I think that’s supposed to…
Clint Eastwood’s Flags of Our Fathers is the bigger and more expensive side of a cinematic diptych, the other half…
As between last week’s monster-mom — Laura Linney’s religious hypocrite in Driving Lessons — and this week’s — Annette Bening’s…
The most fundamental of all the liberal principles handed down to us from the Enlightenment and the very cornerstone of…
Driving Lessons at its best is a charming, funny and sometimes touching family drama starring Julie Walters and Rupert Grint…
It’s an unfortunate coincidence for Kelly Reichardt and Jonathan Raymond, the director and the co-writer of Old Joy, that their…
This year I went to my high school class reunion. I’m not entirely sure why, but it was a hard…
There are only two things wrong with Flyboys, directed by Tony Bill and written by Phil Sears, Blake T. Evans…
“Attitude” perfectly sums up the highest aspiration of much of today’s popular culture. It is to us what “respectability” was…
