James Bowman

Patrick Creadon’s Wordplay is a delight for those who, like myself, enjoy doing crossword puzzles. It’s also depressing. This is…

Watching legendary ex-CIA agent Robert Baer, the model for George Clooney’s character in Syriana, narrate The Cult of the Suicide…

It’s true that I am a natural skeptic about prophecies of doom from scientists and other experts. And if the…

When the history of our times comes to be written, a whole chapter — nay, a whole volume — will…

I liked (sort of) Once Upon a Time in the Midlands (2002), the previous film by the British director Shane…

The press materials for Kevin Keating’s Giuliani Time claim that the film “is certain to bust open the myth of…

Some more thoughts on United 93 by the author of Honor: A History…. Here, at greater length, is David Thomson’s…

Guys and Balls (Manner wie wir), directed by Sherry Horman and written by Benedikt Gollhardt, is based on the perennial…

I didn’t look forward to seeing Paul Greengrass’s United 93. Those who called out “Too soon!” when the trailer was…

The title of David Zeiger’s documentary about resistance to the Vietnam war from within the armed forces — Sir! No…