
James Bowman
Over the Thanksgiving weekend, members of the self-designated 501st Legion of Star Wars “re-enactors” came to Washington, D.C. to take…
Robert Edsel and Bret Witter, who wrote the true life history on which The Monuments Men was based, describe the…
The epigraph to Ralph Fiennes’s The Invisible Woman, adapted from Claire Tomalin’s biography of Ellen Ternan, is naturally taken from…
After only six weeks in release, Lone Survivor is closing in on the box office record set last year by…
Bodies are optional — and therefore dispensable. That has been the subtext of the utopian dream of rationalists from Descartes…
The best line in American Hustle comes in an exchange between Bradley Cooper’s FBI agent, Richie DiMaso, and Irving Rosenfeld,…
You know how, sometimes, when somebody says something really funny or clever and you want to tell somebody else about…
During the two very long hours of Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues, I think I chuckled three times. Meanwhile, all…
Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart or in the head? How begot, how nourished? Reply, reply….