Black Hawk Down (2001)

If you don’t already know what the thugs and murderers of the Afghan Taliban régime were like, this is the movie for you

The absurdly pretentious and over-ambitious winner of this year’s Cannes Festival is at least pretty to look at

The General’s Daughter, directed by Simon West from a screenplay by Christopher Bertolini and William Goldman, adapted from the novel by Nelson DeMille is yet another example of Hollywood’s grotesquely misconceived representation of life in our country’s armed forces where, we are constantly asked to believe, kinky sex vies with political plots and murder as…

[See “He Wore a Yellow Stripe,” The American Spectator of April, 2007, under “Articles”]   Discover more from James Bowman Subscribe to get the latest posts to your email. Type your email… Subscribe

It’s not easy, being human. The older you get the more you understand this. It doesn’t get any harder, necessarily, but at some point, usually in middle age, you realize how hard it has been all along. Agnès Jaoui’s delightful film, Le Goût des Autres or The Taste of Others is about such an epiphany…

Like its predecessor, Toy Story 2 is a triumph of technology — the relatively new technology of computer animation — if not of moviemaking. In fact, as a kind of technological marvel it is naturally impervious to criticism on any merely airy-fairy, aesthetic grounds. Like the Bond films with which it might otherwise be thought…