Christmas in July

[See “Entry from June 18, 2008” under “My Diary”] Discover more from James Bowman Subscribe to get the latest posts to your email. Type your email… Subscribe

Every few years around Christmas time, Steven Spielberg feels the need to trot out his social conscience for public examination. Four years ago it was Schindler’s List, a film designed to show how bad the Holocaust was. This year it is Amistad—the story of a slave rebellion aboard a Spanish ship in 1839 which created…

Ridley Scott has produced a masterpiece about men in battle. As you might expect, The New York Times hated it.

Kicked in the Head directed by Matthew Harrison and co-written by him and the film’s star, Kevin Corrigan, is another of those slacker movies whose makers got far too much money far too early in their careers. This is a movie so immature in its conception, its writing and its execution that even in spite…

A beautiful if harrowing film about a clash between medieval and modern in which neither looks much like a winner

A very watchable film with likable characters suffers from a stereotypical view of religious belief and believers