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James Bowman

James Bowman, our movie and culture critic, is a resident scholar at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. He is the author of Honor: A History and Media Madness: The Corruption of Our Political Culture, both published by Encounter Books.
by | Mar 3, 2014

Over the Thanksgiving weekend, members of the self-designated 501st Legion of Star Wars “re-enactors” came to Washington, D.C. to take…

by | Feb 24, 2014

Robert Edsel and Bret Witter, who wrote the true life history on which The Monuments Men was based, describe the…

by | Feb 5, 2014

The epigraph to Ralph Fiennes’s The Invisible Woman, adapted from Claire Tomalin’s biography of Ellen Ternan, is naturally taken from…

by | Feb 2, 2014

After only six weeks in release, Lone Survivor is closing in on the box office record set last year by…

by | Jan 20, 2014

Bodies are optional — and therefore dispensable. That has been the subtext of the utopian dream of rationalists from Descartes…

by | Jan 17, 2014

The best line in American Hustle comes in an exchange between Bradley Cooper’s FBI agent, Richie DiMaso, and Irving Rosenfeld,…

by | Jan 10, 2014

You know how, sometimes, when somebody says something really funny or clever and you want to tell somebody else about…

by | Jan 8, 2014

During the two very long hours of Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues, I think I chuckled three times. Meanwhile, all…

by | Jan 29, 2013

Tell me where is fancy bred,
 Or in the heart or in the head?
 How begot, how nourished?
 Reply, reply….

by | Jan 28, 2013

Judging by the reactions to it that I have read, the question about Zero Dark Thirty isn’t so much whether…

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