Sands of Iwo Jima, The

Tommy Lee Jones is hunting in the woods for a chicken-loving, people-hating serial killer that — gasp! — he trained. What’s not to like? Read on.

A movie that is a very good example of its kind, even though its kind is not to this critic’s taste

The French may look down their noses at bourgeois morality, but aren’t they witty and charming?

[See “How Hollywood Lost Its Romantic Groove,” The Wall Street Journal of February 9th, 2007, under “Articles”] Discover more from James Bowman Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email. Type your email… Subscribe

A clever but possibly inadvertent satire on the way we live, romantically, now

Titus, written and directed by Julie Taymore, is a revelation. Like most students of Shakespeare, I had always thought Titus Andronicus the weakest of his plays, its Grand Guignol effects obviously the fruits of an apprentice hand. I think so still. But it took Miss Taymore to show us that even Shakespeare’s prentice work was…