Amy Nicholson

In The Identical, Elvis Lives — and His Twin Does, Too

Amy Nicholson
The Identical is Elvis slash fiction that could have been written by a spinster church organist. Its premise is intriguing: What if Jesse Presley, Elvis' twin brother who was stillborn at birth, was in fact secretly given to a traveling minister (Ray Liotta) and his infertile wife (Ashley Judd)? What......

A Chopped-Up Eleanor Rigby Suffers a Fate Worse Than Loneliness

Amy Nicholson
In two minutes, The Beatles captured the empty life of sad singleton Eleanor Rigby. Director Ned Benson is devoting three films to her namesake — a New York divorcée (Jessica Chastain) — and this first entry, The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them, barely explains her at all. Wan and adrift,......
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We Need to Talk About Forrest Gump

Amy Nicholson
Forrest Gump has turned 20 and is celebrating its birthday with a weeklong IMAX release. It's a significant milestone for the six-time Academy Award winner. Today, 1994 is as far away from the present as the Vietnam War was from it. Forrest Gump was a fable without a moral, the......
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The Best Movie Theater Chain in America is Coming to Downtown L.A.

Amy Nicholson
It takes a movie theater chain from Austin to prove that LA's downtown revitalization is permanent. After four years of scouting locations in Los Angeles—some as far west as Westwood—The Alamo Drafthouse has finally chosen a spot to build a nine-screen multiplex: right off the subway at 7th and Metro. “The......
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The Expendables 3 Refuses to Be Expendable or Especially Interesting

Amy Nicholson
Titles don't get more ironic than The Expendables 3. The franchise claims to be about death-seeking mercenaries yet stars '80s action heroes who refuse to die. Three films in, everyone in the sprawling team is still alive and ass-kicking, save for Bruce Willis, whose million-dollar-a-day asking salary has caused his......