It Happened One Night

Great performances and a skillful evocation of provincial England in the 1960s, but a mean-spirited movie all the same

A bittersweet and often very funny look at family relationships which, in spite of a good script and a great cast, doesn’t quite come off

[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

Remember the Titans, directed by Boaz Yakin and written by Gregory Allen Howard, is another in the seemingly endless parade of Hollywood’s self-congratulatory retellings of the civil rights story of the 1960s. Combining it with a classic (not to say clichéic) football story about a high school team’s undefeated season makes the pill of sanctimoniousness…

Nurse Betty, the new film by Neil LaBute (In the Company of Men, Your Friends and Neighbors), is wonderfully enjoyable all the way through until its last ten minutes when suddenly the wild and thrilling ride it has offered us comes to a dead end. The story concerns Betty (Renée Zellweger), a small-town waitress from…

Maybe I’m growing tired and jaded from seeing large numbers of mediocre movies, but more and more I find that the best I can say of a romantic comedy is that it’s not so bad as I expected it to be. This is certainly true of Someone Like You, primary responsibility for which belongs to…