Email Author Nick Schager

2010 Stories by Nick Schager

• ALIEN GIRL

  published December 16, 2010

  ALIEN GIRL There's no extraterrestrial in Alien Girl; the title of Anton Bormatov's film actually refers to its human... More >>

• BHUTTO

  published December 2, 2010

  BHUTTO Despite the biodoc implication of its title, Bhutto is not just a portrait of the late Benazir Bhutto, but also a... More >>

• JEWS AND BASEBALL: AN AMERICAN LOVE STORY

  published November 18, 2010

  JEWS AND BASEBALL: AN AMERICAN LOVE STORY Delivering exactly what its dry truth-in-advertising title promises, Jews and... More >>

• VIOLET TENDENCIES

  published November 18, 2010

  VIOLET TENDENCIES Mindy Cohn teaches the facts of fag-haggery in Violet Tendencies, a fairy tale that dolls up its rote... More >>

• JOLENE

  published November 4, 2010

  JOLENE There's a reason E.L. Doctorow's "Jolene: A Life" finally made it to the big screen: With its episodic-odyssey narrative, the short... More >>

• SECRETARIAT

  published October 7, 2010

  SECRETARIAT Horses make lousy protagonists, what with their inability to speak, emote or do much of anything other than run or... More >>

• STONE

  published October 7, 2010

  STONE Robert De Niro’s alarm must have finally gone off. In Stone, the actor seems more awake than he has been in years. De... More >>

• Movie Review: Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole

  published September 23, 2010

  GO  LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS: THE OWLS OF GA'HOOLE Animal Logic, the digital effects studio responsible... More >>

• Movie Review: White Wedding

  published September 2, 2010

  WHITE WEDDING Generic enough that a stateside remake would require only negligible Americanization, Jann Turner's South... More >>