Nick Pinkerton

GULLIVER’S TRAVELS Lemuel Gulliver (Jack Black) has spent a decade stuck in the mail room of a New York City newspaper before blundering and plagiarizing his way into a travel-writing assignment that lands him, en route to the Bermuda Triangle, in Lilliput. Black’s playing a “Gulliver,” but while sharing disproportionate......

LITTLE FOCKERS Just in time for the whole family to file into the multiplex on a silent Christmas night when there’s nowhere else to go: a return to the magnified dysfunction of the Focker household, and the cozy holiday glow of some paychecking celebrities. After a temporary truce, Ben Stiller’s......

TOUCHING HOME Touching Home's identical twin screenwriters, Noah and Logan Miller, direct themselves, frequently shirtless, as identical twin jocks Clint and Lane (one of them has a missing tooth, which helps distinguish them only marginally). Long floating on the almost-maybe-next-year periphery of pro baseball, the boys, after yet another cut,......

GO  WARD NO. 6 Based on Chekhov's 1892 story of a provincial doctor who winds up in his own asylum, scourged out of his professional complacency by dialogues with a philosophical inmate, Aleksander Gornovsky and Karen Shakhnazarov's film begins on a dust-blowing conceit, interviewing actual wards of the state in......

Heartless is multimedia artist Philip Ridley's third feature film, and his first since 1995; in the interim he's been busy with plays and novels, many geared to young audiences. Though well into manhood, Heartless' protagonist, Jamie (Jim Sturgess), is hung up on feelings of irreconcilable difference and alienation usually associated......

Heartless is multimedia artist Philip Ridley's third feature film, and his first since 1995; in the interim he's been busy with plays and novels, many geared to young audiences. Though well into manhood, Heartless' protagonist, Jamie (Jim Sturgess), is hung up on feelings of irreconcilable difference and alienation usually associated......

This third adaptation from C.S. Lewis' seven-volume Chronicles of Narnia series comes underwritten by a new studio and with a new director, Michael Apted. The war has ground on, and Edmund and Lucy (Skandar Keynes and Georgie Henley), the two youngest Pevensie children, are considerably grown up and sequestered with......

The fiction feature debut of Andrew Jarecki, director of 2003's documentary Capturing the Friedmans, All Good Things likewise concerns dark secrets among the Levites of New York, reopening the case of Robert "Bobby" Durst, estranged son and black sheep of a real estate dynasty. Durst re-emerged into the public eye......

HEARTLESS Heartless is multimedia artist Philip Ridley's third feature film, and his first since 1995; in the interim he's been busy with plays and novels, many geared to young audiences. Though well into manhood, Heartless' protagonist, Jamie (Jim Sturgess), is hung up on feelings of irreconcilable difference and alienation usually......

FASTER Faster is a glossy B made from three twining bad-men stories: There's pneumatically muscled ex-con "Driver" (Dwayne Johnson), sharp-dressed hit man "Killer" (Oliver Jackson-Cohen) and the self-explanatory "Cop" (Billy Bob Thornton). Driver stomps out of prison with a list of the people who put him there and a sworn......