Latest ‘Message’ Movies: Anti-American, but Entertaining

Phillip Noyce’s The Quiet American , from a screenplay by Christopher Hampton and Robert Schenkkan, based on the novel by Graham Greene, and Michael Moore’s Bowling for Columbine belong to that category of the cinema much beloved by the once-dominant practitioners of O Brother, Where Art Thou? film criticism, which enthroned movies with a “message.” Read More

A Dynamic, Sexy New Bond Team

It wouldn’t be a holiday season without James Bond, and with Die Another Day , the 20th installment, the Bond franchise continues unchallenged with new guns, gadgets and girls galore. After 40 years, 007 shows no shortness of breath, and after an endless array of violent, explosive and superhuman clashes with death, he still emerges Read More