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2011 Stories by Aaron Hillis

• Answers to Nothing Review

  published December 1, 2011

  Panicked over being late to artificially inseminate his wife at the hospital, an unhappily married therapist (Dane Cook) pulls his mistress'... More >>

• I Melt With You Review

  published December 1, 2011

  Insincere and superficially nihilistic, director Mark Pellington's swaggering, midlife-crisis melodrama about a soulless quartet of asshole... More >>

• Elevate Review

  published November 3, 2011

  Four years, two continents, and a whole lot of culture shock in the making, Anne Buford's endearing and vibrantly photographed hoop-dreams doc... More >>

• OKA! Review

  published October 27, 2011

  Love Actually's Kris Marshall stars as Larry, an endearingly goofy ethnomusicologist from Jersey who travels to the forests of Central... More >>

• The Man Nobody Knew Review

  published October 13, 2011

  With a chewy title to tip us off, director Carl Colby’s compelling and tricky portrait of his late pop streamlines and connects two vital... More >>

• The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby Review

  published October 13, 2011

  With a chewy title to tip us off, director Carl Colby's compelling and tricky portrait of his late pop streamlines and connects two vital... More >>

• Granito: How to Nail A Dictator Review

  published September 29, 2011

  In 1982, doc filmmaker Pamela Yates traveled to Guatemala to capture both sides of the then-raging civil war, in which the despotic regime of... More >>

• Final Destination 5 Review

  published August 11, 2011

  Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter was chased by seven more sequels and a reboot, so was anyone really expecting 2009's schlock-tacular... More >>

• Soul Surfer

  published April 7, 2011

  SOUL SURFER Adapted from the 2003 tragedy-to-triumph memoir of Hawaiian teen surfer Bethany Hamilton — who famously... More >>

• Source Code

  published March 31, 2011

  SOURCE CODE Moon director Duncan Jones’ pseudocerebral, modestly budgeted sci-fi thriller is a propulsive ride worth your... More >>

• Gnomeo & Juliet

  published February 10, 2011

  GNOMEO & JULIET 
One bard's timeless tragedy becomes a multiplex's frivolous romantic comedy in Disney's CGI-animated... More >>

• From Prada to Nada

  published February 3, 2011

  FROM PRADA TO NADA Amy Heckerling was the first to make over Jane Austen's gentrywomen as Beverly Hills shopaholics in the... More >>

• Sanctum

  published February 3, 2011

  SANCTUM Executive producer James Cameron lends his marketable screen credit and the 3-D cameras he developed for... More >>

• Troubadours

  published February 3, 2011

  TROUBADOURS All hail the Troubadour, the landmark West Hollywood nightclub that galvanized the late-'60s, early-'70s... More >>

• Waiting for Forever

  published February 3, 2011

  WAITING FOR FOREVER Did you hear the one about the young TV actress who rebuffs — then ultimately falls for — the... More >>

• Q&A: Gregg Araki on Kaboom, his latest potential cult classic

  published January 27, 2011

  At 51, Gregg Araki doesn't want you to think he only makes movies about teenagers. After the post-punk camp of his '90s "teen... More >>

• Evangelion 1.0

  published January 20, 2011

  GO  EVANGELION 1.0 Neon Genesis Evangelion creator Hideaki Anno co-directs the first in a... More >>