
James Bowman
Ellen DeGeneres opened this year’s Oscar broadcast with a joke about the two possible outcomes of the nearly four hours…
A friend of mine once described an eerie noise as being “like a spaceship landing.” Of course no one —…
There are a few implausibilities at the heart of The Other Woman, Nick Cassavetes’s female revenge fantasy to a script…
In explaining why he wants to save, as he sees it, the cultural heritage of Europe, stolen and spirited away…
“You can’t not love and hate the same person,” says Nick (Jim Broadbent) to Meg (Lindsay Duncan) — “usually in…
If there is anything that is clear about the occasionally unclear Judeo-Christian Scriptural account of the Creation, it is that…
What was that stereotype again? Something about women being fickle and unable to make up their minds? Oh, and being…
The critic for Variety called The Past (Le Passé) by Asghar Farhadi (A Separation) “an exquisitely sculpted family melodrama in which…
The word for “lunchbox” in Hindi is dabba,and the people who deliver lunchboxes, mostly from their wives at home to…
Wes Anderson’s long flirtation with whimsy has finally resulted in their tying the knot in The Grand Budapest Hotel. I’m…