My Man Godfrey

An absurd historical fantasy that accomplishes the impossible by making even its fellow Shakespeare authorship cranks look good by comparison

All by itself, X-men seems to have turned around Hollywood’s summer, earning $57.5 million in its opening weekend (more than any other July film, ever) and making a lacklustre box office into something not far short of boffo. As to an adult sensibility (but who has one of those anymore?) this techno-fantasy may look all…

Groundhog Day meets The Bourne Ultimatum — but what is the point?

The curse of Disney strikes again, ruining another fine filmic property as only the Evil Empire knows how to do

[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

Another slow moving film about an encounter between Japan and the West in which two things happen — two more than in Oscar nominated Lost in Translation