Email Author Dan Kois

2010 Stories by Dan Kois

• TANGLED

  published November 25, 2010

  GO  TANGLED "Great," sighs the wicked witch in Tangled, a CG-animated spin on the Rapunzel... More >>

• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: The End Is Near

  published November 18, 2010

  A teenage witch stands trembling behind her unsuspecting mother and father, wand raised. Obliviate, she whispers, and... More >>

• FOUR LIONS

  published November 4, 2010

  GO  FOUR LIONS It would be unwise to consider Four Lions a movie that has much to say about radical Islam or the threat... More >>

• 127 HOURS

  published November 4, 2010

  GO  127 HOURS Watch what James Franco — actor/sleepy grad student/tepid writer/viral video comedian/conceptual... More >>

• WELCOME TO THE RILEYS

  published October 28, 2010

  WELCOME TO THE RILEYS Kristen Stewart's not exactly playing a hooker with a heart of gold in Jake Scott's underwritten... More >>

• WILD TARGET

  published October 28, 2010

  WILD TARGET The whole time I was watching Wild Target, I was trying to figure out just how to explain its weirdly... More >>

• FREAKONOMICS

  published September 30, 2010

  FREAKONOMICS A quartet of uneven TV pilots posing as a full-length documentary, Seth Gordon's anthology Freakonomics pulls... More >>

• Movie Review: Jack Goes Boating

  published September 16, 2010

  GO  JACK GOES BOATING Jack Goes Boating is Philip Seymour Hoffman's movie — it's his directorial... More >>

• Movie Review: Highwater

  published September 2, 2010

  GO HIGHWATER Sure to become a sacred text to surf-movie enthusiasts but surprisingly watchable even for those... More >>

• Twilight: Eclipse: Fetish Object

  published June 24, 2010

  Why is Eclipse, the third film in the Twilight series, so fantastically successful? Why does the audience... More >>