James Bowman

We think that the days of honor are past, at least of honor as it was always traditionally understood, which…

Yours, Mine and Ours (1968) originally starred Lucille Ball and Henry Fonda — both at least 15 years too old…

Pop quiz, everybody. Question One. Who today is blowing up innocent people in an effort to thwart democracy, women’s rights,…

Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is a great novel partly because it tells a good human and romantic story which…

…So I went to a performance of Shakespeare’s Winter’s Tale at the Kennedy Center the other night. It was directed…

Good Morning, Night by Marco Bellocchio is a film that should be classified with this season’s two other attempts to…

The tell-tale moment in Sam Mendes’s movie version of Anthony Swofford’s book, Jarhead, comes early on when the young recruit,…

What are the odds? You go for years without seeing a movie that offers you a sympathetic portrayal of Islamic…

That The Weather Man, directed by Gore Verbinski (Mousehunt, The Ring, Pirates of the Caribbean) from a script by Steve…

On the same day that my review of George Stade’s academic novel Sex and Violence (see below) appeared in the…