Email Author Nick Pinkerton

2011 Stories by Nick Pinkerton

• Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel Review

  published December 15, 2011

  Bio-doc Corman's World examines the maverick legacy of Roger Corman, who made his reputation, such as it is, beginning in the 1950s as... More >>

• Outrage Review

  published December 1, 2011

  Takeshi Kitano's latest finds the actor-director returning to the familiar terrain of the yakuza film after recent farces (Achilles and the... More >>

• Crazy Wisdom: The Life & Times of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche Review

  published December 1, 2011

  Watching the succession of talking-head testimonials by former disciples of More >>

• Arthur Christmas Review

  published November 24, 2011

  The animated, 3-D Arthur Christmas introduces three generations of St. Nick's family: Weedy retired Grandsanta (voiced by Bill Nighy,... More >>

• Dog Sweat Review

  published November 17, 2011

  Dog Sweat skips among the loosely connected lives of six young Iranians whose desires chafe against the social and fundamentalist... More >>

• Happy Feet Two Review

  published November 17, 2011

  Mumble, the hoofing emperor penguin from the first Happy Feet (voiced again by Elijah Wood), now struggles to make a fatherly... More >>

• The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch Review

  published November 17, 2011

  The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch is based on a Belgian comic book originally begun in the 1970s. It must be that the film's murky,... More >>

• Tower Heist Review

  published November 3, 2011

  A revenge of the have-nots playing on the clear class stratification of the luxury high-rise, Tower Heist pits lobby against... More >>

• Anonymous Review

  published October 27, 2011

  Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, is the close-second candidate to be attributed authorship of the 37 plays of William Shakespeare, the... More >>

• Like Crazy Review

  published October 27, 2011

  Anna (Felicity Jones) is an aspiring journalist, a wee wisp of a girl come from Britain to study in Los Angeles, where she meets cute with... More >>

• Daylight Review

  published October 20, 2011

  Daylight begins with a well-off European couple, Danny and pregnant wife Irene (Aidan Redmond and Alexandra Meierhans), on their way... More >>

• Klitschko Review

  published October 20, 2011

  On the heels of the turgid battling-brothers drama Warrior, Sebastian Dehnhardt's flashily edited German documentary arrives,... More >>

• Neo-Realism at UCLA

  published October 13, 2011

  That the Vesuvius-like eruption of Italian neo-realism altered the landscape of film history is widely agreed upon. It's less easy to come to a... More >>

• Father of Invention Review

  published October 13, 2011

  It is an unquestioned truism of recent American movies, from Marmaduke to The Descendants, that working hard at a job is... More >>

• Texas Killing Fields Review

  published October 13, 2011

  Detectives Souder and Heigh (Sam Worthington and Jeffrey Dean Morgan) are two Texas City cops investigating a string of killings whose female... More >>

• 1911 Review

  published October 6, 2011

  Once upon a time in Hong Kong, there was a man named Jackie Chan who made... More >>

• Real Steel Review

  published October 6, 2011

  Charlie Kenton (Hugh Jackman) is a two-bit trainer working the state fair circuit in a not-too-distant future. His line is robot fighting, a... More >>

• Toast Review

  published October 6, 2011

  Premiered as a BBC1 telefilm, now flaunting its wasteful widescreen in theaters, Toast adapts the autobiography of Nigel Slater, a... More >>

• The Mill and the Cross Review

  published September 29, 2011

  An extraordinary example of both art-historical interpretation and CGI as passport to unknown lands, The Mill and the Cross, based on... More >>

• Warrior Review

  published September 8, 2011

  You know those Affliction shirts, covered in skulls, gothic lettering and tribal patterns, all cacophonous symbols of badass machismo? That's... More >>

• Senna Review

  published August 11, 2011

  One of the biggest names in Formula 1 racing, Ayrton Senna was 34 years old when a well-placed blow from a suspension shaft ended his life at... More >>

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  Rise of the Planet of the Apes: Simian Disobedience

  published August 4, 2011

  The latest descendant of the half-century old de-evolution concept that began with Pierre Boulle’s novel, Rise of the... More >>

• Cowboys & Aliens Review

  published July 28, 2011

  We begin in classic saddle-sore terrain. A lone stranger with a mysterious past — Daniel Craig fills the boots here... More >>

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  The Devil's Double Review

  published July 28, 2011

  The embellishment of a memoir by Latif Yahia, once forcibly employed as a public stand-in for Saddam Hussein's psychopathic son,... More >>

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  The Guard Review

  published July 28, 2011

  The Guard is a shaggy-man character study, its subject a fiftysomething policeman in West Ireland, Sergeant Gerry Boyle (Brendan... More >>