Email Author Nick Pinkerton

2010 Stories by Nick Pinkerton

• Vision continues the proto-feminist canonization of Blessed Hildegard von Bingen

  published December 2, 2010

  The fifth collaboration of director Margarethe Von Trotta and actress Barbara Sukowa, Vision continues the proto-feminist... More >>

• Flick Pick: Vision

  published December 2, 2010

  The fifth collaboration of director Margarethe Von Trotta and actress Barbara Sukowa, Vision continues the proto-feminist... More >>

• Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson's story told in Fair Game

  published November 4, 2010

  Adapted from Valerie Plame and Joseph C. Wilson's memoirs, the unsurprisingly validating Fair Game begins as a timeline-hopping... More >>

• A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop is a single-night masterpiece

  published September 30, 2010

  Following up his Beijing Olympics opening-ceremony mega-production, Zhang Yimou remakes the Coen Brothers' Blood Simple by dressing it... More >>

• Wall Street bailout: A movie for the 'NINJA' generation

  published September 23, 2010

  Oliver Stone's Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps doesn't have the clean, fable-like arc of its predecessor, the tale of the Fox and... More >>

• Townie made good: The Town's a blue-collar stick-up movie

  published September 16, 2010

  Directing himself as a verifiable big-movie lead after some time in supporting-actor Triple-A ball, director-star Ben Affleck models a full... More >>

• Faith no more: The Last Exorcism puts a welcome twist on the demonic-possession movie

  published August 26, 2010

  With a small, well-chosen cast, sly script and slippery, ambivalent characters, The Last Exorcism puts a welcome twist on the... More >>

• Puff piece: Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist, and Rebel

  published August 19, 2010

  Dirtbag Gene Simmons opens the film, flatly stating that every man envies Hugh Hefner. Is that what I was feeling, watching photo ops... More >>

• Cop out: Injections of zaniness don't light the impersonality of The Other Guys

  published August 5, 2010

  After obligatory helicopter views of New York's skyline open Adam McKay's The Other Guys, we're introduced to Danson and... More >>

• Inception takes an underwhelming trip through the subconscious

  published July 15, 2010

  Inception is a chilling trip into the psyche...of writer-director Christopher Nolan, an Anglo-American action director who shattered the... More >>

• The City of Your Final Destination finds the cracks in an aristocratic life

  published July 1, 2010

  James Ivory and cast make every scene flutter with feeling in this adaptation of Peter Cameron's 2002 novel, The City of Your Final... More >>

• The Karate Kid remake is too cynical to catch a fly with chopsticks

  published June 10, 2010

  Like its predecessor, 2010's Harald Zwart-directed The Karate Kid begins with an uprooting. Young Dre Parker (Jaden Smith) and... More >>

• Very little survives in George A. Romero's Survival of the Dead

  published May 27, 2010

  The sixth installment in George A. Romero's long-running horror serial (est. 1967), Survival of the Dead follows Sarge Crockett... More >>

• Flick Pick

  published May 27, 2010

  The sixth installment in George A. Romero's long-running horror serial (est. 1967), Survival of the Dead follows Sarge Crockett... More >>

• Iron Man 2 will lead to 3 and probably 4, but that doesn't mean it's good

  published May 6, 2010

  As Iron Man 2 begins, Tony Stark — mechanical genius, Forbes 400 perennial, the pop-star CEO of Stark Industries... More >>

• Love, angst and something else are in the air in Remember Me

  published March 11, 2010

  Putatively a new romance starring Robert Pattinson, Remember Me begins like a vigilante movie: A Brooklyn subway platform, 1991;... More >>

• Four books, three films, and one very rotten Yorkshire in Red Riding trilogy

  published March 4, 2010

  Now a 305-minute triptych film, Red Riding originated in the novels of Ossett-bred David Peace, written in Tokyo and published... More >>

• Shutter Island

  published February 18, 2010

  Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island, a florid art shocker that Paramount welcomed into the world with the strained enthusiasm of a... More >>

• From Paris With Love

  published February 4, 2010

  As personal assistant to the U.S. Ambassador to France, James Reese (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) can keep himself in well-tailored suits and keep his... More >>

• Edge of Darkness

  published January 28, 2010

  Did you shoot my daughtah?" is the question posed, in flat-voweled Bostonian, in the trailer for Edge of Darkness. And Mel... More >>

• The Book of Eli

  published January 14, 2010

  Directors Allen and Albert Hughes were raised by an Armenian mother and African-American father. With such a background, it would be difficult... More >>

• Crazy Heart

  published January 14, 2010

  Yesterday's honky-tonk hero, Bad Blake, arrives at a Clovis, New Mexico, bowling alley. It's another in a string of low-pay, low-turnout gigs... More >>