James Bowman
The recent fuss over the National Security Agency’s eavesdropping on the phone conversations of suspected terrorists is only the latest…
Generally speaking, the classic themes ain’t what they used to be. Take love versus duty. Back in the days of…
Sonny Bunch — can that be his real name? — writing for the website of the Weekly Standard on January…
Holocaust movies that are not documentaries too often seek to elicit pathos by piggy-backing on one of the great tragedies…
Those who are as old as I am may remember being young in 1967 when Bo Widerberg’s Elvira Madigan made…
Are Jews better people than Arabs, or Israelis than Palestinians? How could anyone possibly say — even if it were…
A confession: I hate, hate, hate Merchant-Ivory movies. Probably, I should recuse myself from reviewing them, so much do I…
A new thing, in the movies as elsewhere in life, is a rarity, but I think I’ve stumbled on one….
Rob Marshall’s Memoirs of a Geisha, adapted from the novel by Arthur Golden by Robin Swicord and Doug Wright, makes…
Americans have always been inclined to belief in a divine right of self-reinvention. The land of immigrants has remained for…
