James Bowman
According to the Times of London, Dominic Dromgoole, the artistic director of Shakespeare’s Globe theatre there, is scoring some good…
Now it can be told. I’ve been just a bit embarrassed by the uniformly good reviews of Honor: A History…
As a long-time admirer of the beautiful Nathalie Baye, I found the moment when Commandant Caroline “Caro” Vaudieu of the…
House of Sand (Casa de Areia), by the Brazilian director Andrucha Waddington from a screenplay by Elena Soarez, is a…
Even the tag line of Robert Moresco’s 10th & Wolf sounds tired: “The intersection where family, honor and betrayal collide.”…
Though it is too heavily freighted with pathos and sentimentality and a clunky and unnecessary political subtext, Princesas, by Fernando…
Little Miss Sunshine, directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris from a screenplay by Michael Arndt, is a likable little…
It’s always a challenge to a film-maker when everybody already knows the story he’s trying to tell. The plot automatically…
Quinceanera by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland is an Anglo take on Mexican-American culture in Los Angeles which approaches its…
Claude Chabrol’s The Bridesmaid (La Demoiselle d’Honneur), which came out in 2004 but is only now finding a release in…
