Amy Nicholson

Land Ho!, a Road Trip Movie About Horny Seniors in Iceland

Amy Nicholson
Land Ho! is a How Grandpa Got His Groove Back for the geezer set, a buddy road trip through Iceland, starring two divorced men with a combined age of 150 years. The writer-directors, Martha Stephens and Aaron Katz, are 30 and 34, respectively, young enough to be their leading men's......

Deliver Us From Deliver Us From Evil

Amy Nicholson
Horror, like porn, can be judged only by its effect on your pulse. If you jerked in your seat, it served its function. Biology requires us to react to jump scares, just as it urges a lonely man to thrill to a great set of tits. But triggering a coronary reaction......

Earth to Echo Updates E. T. for the iPhone Age

Amy Nicholson
Earth to Echo is a slender kiddie flick about a quartet of preteens and their palm-sized alien pal, which is at once bland, well-intentioned and utterly terrifying about the mental development of modern children. As in the most honest kids films, our pint-size heroes admit to being isolated, unhappy and......

Nothing Bad Can Happen Mixes Horror, Punk and Jesus

Amy Nicholson
Katrin Gebbe's Nothing Bad Can Happen is a gutting German drama that asks if martyrs can be accomplices to their own torture. Its modern saint is a homeless teenager named Tore (Julius Feldmeier), a born-again punk rocker who rolls with a group called The Jesus Freaks. He doesn't attend an......
The Cinespia crowd jostles for space; Credit: Flickr/ebbandflowphotography

Don't Be That Guy: Basic Summer Outdoor Screening Etiquette

Amy Nicholson
Lounging with wine and cheese sounds civilized, unless you're picnicking at one of Los Angeles dozen-plus outdoor summer movie screenings. The crowds at Cinespia and Electric Dusk look relaxed, but are roiling under the surface with unspoken - and unagreed-upon - rules for proper social conduct. Failing ushers to maintain order, nature screenings are......

Robert Pattinson Stars in Post-Apocalyptic Western The Rover

Amy Nicholson
The Rover, Australian filmmaker David Michôd's follow-up to his brutish family drama Animal Kingdom, is a post-apocalyptic Western from the Outback, a stretch of land that already looks like the world's been blown away. All Michôd needs to convince us of the devastation is a title card pegging the events......