James Bowman
“Spring and Fall” by Gerard Manley Hopkins — which begins (accent marks signifying Hopkins’s artificial or “sprung” rhythm) Márgarét, áre…
One of the best moments of Monsieur Lazhar by the Québécois writer-director Philippe Falardeau comes when 12-year-old Marie-Frédérique (Marie-Eve Beauregard)…
The most interesting thing about Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope, a new documentary by Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me),…
Well, of course. No sooner do I make mention (see last month’s “Pseuds and Artists”) of what I think is…
When former Governor Rod Blagojevich of Illinois went to prison last month, Jay Leno inevitably made a couple of jokes…
Set in 1984 in the ethnic poverty of a remote corner of New Zealand, Boy, the second feature by the…
The splendid new movie by Whit Stillman, Damsels in Distress, begins with a musical allusion to “Gaudeamus Igitur,” the medieval…
Artemis, also known as Diana the Huntress, lives on in The Hunger Games — a movie which, perhaps not coincidentally,…
The title of Jeff, Who Lives at Home announces a movie that must be a variation on a now common…
The thing I always think about movies like Friends With Kids — movies in which two people who are obviously…
