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[See “Eastwoodian Aftermaths,” The American Spectator, February, 2007 under “Articles”]
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A moving portrayal of a little-known passage of recent history which even manages to make us forget why it was, until now, little known
Trial and Error by Jonathan Lynn, to a screenplay by Sara Bernstein and Gregory Bernstein, based on the former’s short story, has its funny moments, though the clichés come too thick and fast for the film to be quite satisfying in the end. In fact the basic situation the comedy presents us with is one…
The first question to be asked about the shot-by-shot remake of Psycho, directed from Alfred Hitchcock’s original shooting script by Gus Van Sant, is why? What is the point? Couldn’t they just have got Ted Turner to “colorize” the great man’s greatest masterpiece? Why bother to hire a whole new cast and crew to go…
[See “Our Childless Dystopia” in The New Atlantis of Winter, 2007, under “Articles”] Discover more from James Bowman Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email. Type your email… Subscribe
A wife’s Mission Impossible to bring hubby back from the war. You don’t suppose it could — possibly — fail do you?
