Eric Hynes

IT’S KIND OF A FUNNY STORY

Eric Hynes
IT’S KIND OF A FUNNY STORY A film seemingly designed to get every New York City honors student face-punched at college, It’s Kind of a Funny Story chronicles a privileged Brooklyn high-schooler’s super-cool institutionalized mental-health break. Hot for his best friend’s girlfriend, stressed out over an application to a prestigious......
Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo

Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo: A Bug's Life

Eric Hynes
An expansive take on the world in miniature, Jessica Oreck's documentary debut pursues all angles on a novel subject — the Japanese obsession with insects — until it assumes a worldview. That such an approach could work for just about any aspect of existence (academia subsists on such blinkered, max-effort......
Miley and man friend in The Last Song

Sparks Notes on Modern Romance

Eric Hynes
Easy to dismiss but increasingly difficult to ignore, Nicholas Sparks products have become the standard for modern American romance. With this week's release of The Last Song, six of Sparks' 15 novels have been adapted to film within the past 11 years, and two are in the pipeline. As character-oriented......