James Bowman

The poet Roy Campbell was once famous for having written this little epigram titled “On Some South African Novelists”: You…

Agnes Jaoui’s terrific new movie, Look at Me, begins in a taxicab as the passenger (Marilou Berry), attempts to get…

It’s one of those moments when the abyss seems to open up at one’s feet. There is no surprise, of…

Rebecca Miller’s Ballad of Jack and Rose is carried along just so far by the mesmeric performances of her husband,…

Who was it who said it’s the hardest thing in the world to be funny? It might have been Woody…

Campbell Scott’s Off the Map, adapted for the screen from her own play by Joan Ackerman, is a highly atmospheric…

Movies may or may not show us images of reality. The point is always debatable. What is beyond doubt is…

In the school where I once taught, they used to tell the story of the smart-alecky boy in chemistry class…

Up and Down, directed by Jan Hrebejk and written by Petr Jarchovsky, (Divided We Fall) is in a way a…

“Raw Language Of War Will Fall On PG-13 Ears,” headlined the Washington Post last Friday. The story told of how…