James Bowman
Beginning with the opening screen card, which informs us that people in Texas in 1858 were living “Two Years Before…
THE NEW FILM SEAL Team Six: The Raid on Osama bin Laden appeared on the National Geographic Channel on November…
That Roger Michell’s and Richard Nelson’s Hyde Park On Hudson opened on December 7th could be said to add a…
In order to like David O. Russell’s Silver Linings Playbook as it ought to be liked, it helps to see…
For my generation of adolescent boys growing up in the 1960s, the appeal of Sean Connery’s James Bond lay in…
The first thing to be said about Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln is what a brave idea it represents. It is that…
WRITING WELL AHEAD of time, I won’t hazard any guesses as to how Election Day turns out, but I will…
Sister, by the Franco-Swiss director Ursula Meier (Home), achieves its considerable effects at least partly by misdirection. Set during the…
Ben Affleck’s Argo is, in a great Hollywood tradition, a movie about movies more than what it is ostensibly about,…
Sometimes it is a good idea to go to a picture that is an obvious flopperoo, a real stinker like…
