James Bowman
One measure of the extent to which culture is undermined by unbridled recourse to fantasy lies in how blasé we…
Writing in the New York Times Book Review on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of A Clockwork Orange, Martin…
Just as the trend in Hollywood, after decades of anti-Americanism and anti-military prejudice, may now be moving in the opposite…
Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master is an easy movie to like, or so I found it anyway. It stands in…
The word “arbitrage,” as I understand it, means taking advantage of the time lag with which information is transmitted between…
SUPPOSEDLY, with The Dark Knight Rises, Christopher Nolan has finally arrived at the end of his “Batman Trilogy,” which began…
Near the end of 2016: Obama’s America, Dinesh D’Souza — who is the principal on-screen presence and co-director (with John…
“That’s it baby, when you’ve got it, flaunt it! Flaunt it!” So says Zero Mostel’s Max Bialystock in Mel Brooks’s…
Hollywood doesn’t do politics — at least not politics as it is practiced in the real world. That muddled and…
When I last reviewed one, I wrote that a film critic reviewing a James Bond movie inevitably feels like a…
