Email Author Nick Pinkerton

2010 Stories by Nick Pinkerton

• GULLIVER'S TRAVELS

  published December 23, 2010

  GULLIVER’S TRAVELS Lemuel Gulliver (Jack Black) has spent a decade stuck in the mail room of a New York City newspaper... More >>

• LITTLE FOCKERS

  published December 23, 2010

  LITTLE FOCKERS Just in time for the whole family to file into the multiplex on a silent Christmas night when there’s... More >>

• TOUCHING HOME

  published December 16, 2010

  TOUCHING HOME Touching Home's identical twin screenwriters, Noah and Logan Miller, direct themselves, frequently... More >>

• WARD No. 6

  published December 16, 2010

  GO  WARD NO. 6 Based on Chekhov's 1892 story of a provincial doctor who winds up in his own asylum,... More >>

• HEARTLESS

  published December 2, 2010

  HEARTLESS Heartless is multimedia artist Philip Ridley's third feature film, and his first since 1995; in the interim he's... More >>

• FASTER

  published November 25, 2010

  FASTER Faster is a glossy B made from three twining bad-men stories: There's pneumatically muscled ex-con "Driver" (Dwayne... More >>

• WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS: A MAN WITHIN

  published November 25, 2010

  WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS: A MAN WITHIN In Yony Leyser's documentary hagiography — which ends with John Waters nominating its subject for... More >>

• OUTSIDE THE LAW

  published November 11, 2010

  OUTSIDE THE LAW Rule of law scarcely discourages the endless reprisals in Rachid Bouchareb's Algerian War–era... More >>

• THE TAQWACORES

  published November 11, 2010

  THE TAQWACORES There are all the elements of a terrific spoof in The Taqwacores, which follows a year in the life of a house... More >>

• VISION

  published November 11, 2010

  VISION The fifth collaboration of director Margarethe Von Trotta and actress Barbara Sukowa, Vision continues the... More >>

• FAIR GAME

  published November 4, 2010

  FAIR GAME Adapted from Valerie Plame's and Joseph C. Wilson's memoirs, the unsurprisingly validating Fair Game begins as a time-line-hopping... More >>

• RED HILL

  published November 4, 2010

  RED HILL Patrick Hughes' feature debut starts out promisingly enough, setting the table for a square-meal genre picture. Relocated big-city cop... More >>

• NORA'S WILL

  published October 28, 2010

  NORA'S WILL José (Fernando Luján) has been divorced from Nora for 20 years. They were married at least as long.... More >>

• PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 2

  published October 28, 2010

  PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 2 The prequel-sequel bookend of last year's studio ATM, Paranormal Activity 2 picks up with... More >>

• PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 2

  published October 21, 2010

  PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 2 The prequel-sequel bookend of last year’s studio ATM, Paranormal Activity 2 picks up with... More >>

• MY SOUL TO TAKE

  published October 14, 2010

  MY SOUL TO TAKE This is the first 3-D picture from Master of (Mediocre) Horror Wes Craven. I know it's in 3-D not because of any additional... More >>

• I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE

  published October 7, 2010

  I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE Syfy Network house director Steven R. Monroe remakes Meir Zarchi’s 1978 quintessential... More >>

• It's A Wonderful Afterlife

  published October 7, 2010

  IT’S A WONDERFUL AFTERLIFE A murderess is loose in West London’s Indian community, using food as her deadly weapon... More >>

• THE FREEBIE

  published September 30, 2010

  THE FREEBIE Annie and Darren are a married thirtysomething L.A. couple coddled in childless comfort (Katie Aselton, in her... More >>

• LET ME IN

  published September 30, 2010

  LET ME IN Modish blankness tries to pass for clarity in Let Me In, Cloverfield director Matt Reeves'... More >>

• Movie Review: Devil

  published September 23, 2010

  DEVIL M. Night Shyamalan cooked up this twisty straw story of sin, punishment and redemption, in which five strangers —... More >>

• Movie Review: Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould

  published September 23, 2010

  GO  GENIUS WITHIN: THE INNER LIFE OF GLENN GOULD Michele Hozer and Peter Raymont's portrait of... More >>

• Movie Review: Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

  published September 23, 2010

  WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS Out of jail and reborn as a lecture-circuit prophet just as 2008's "economic Pearl Harbor"... More >>

• The Town: Townie Made Good

  published September 16, 2010

  Directing himself as a verifiable big-movie lead after some time in supporting-actor Triple-A ball, director-star Ben Affleck... More >>

• Movie Review: Catfish

  published September 16, 2010

  CATFISH Catfish comes in at 89 minutes — just long enough to sustain the suspense in a setup that starts to... More >>