Email Author Aaron Hillis

2012 Stories by Aaron Hillis

• Summer Film Guide: Rooftop Films and Spaghetti Westerns

  published May 23, 2012

  BAMcinemaFest June 20 through July 1 An undeniably essential collection of emerging indie talent (as recently vetted by... More >>

• Safe

  published April 25, 2012

  The pulpy scenarios change, but squinty action hero Jason Statham remains chiseled, coiled, and ready to hurl himself into scores of grimacing... More >>

• Woman Thou Art Loosed: On the 7th Day

  published April 11, 2012

  Although executive produced by T.D. Jakes, the publicity-savvy televangelist who conceived and costarred in 2004's Woman Thou Art Loosed... More >>

• Spring Guide 2012: The Stabbin' Cabin

  published March 28, 2012

  The title is the setup, and nobody in this van ride to oblivion has ever seen a pimple in his or her life: There's the jock, the slutty one,... More >>

• An Encounter With Simone Weil

  published March 21, 2012

  In the abbreviated life of French philosopher and sociopolitical activist Simone Weil (1909–1943), the daughter of agnostic Jews went to... More >>

• Gerhard Richter Painting

  published March 14, 2012

  Countless documentaries have feebly attempted to probe and illuminate the creative process (the phrase "dancing about architecture" springs to... More >>

• Awesome Movie, Great Job: In Brooklyn With Sorta-Comedians Tim and Eric

  published February 22, 2012

  Watch any 11-minute episode of Adult Swim's warped, experimental sketch series Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, and then try to... More >>

• The Fairy

  published February 22, 2012

  Since their irresistibly madcap 2005 debut, Iceberg, Belgium-based filmmakers, actors, and former clowns Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon,... More >>

• The Secret World of Arrietty

  published February 15, 2012

  Synonymous with the humanistic, eco-minded, pastel-hued elegance of Japanese filmmaker and animation virtuoso Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited... More >>

• Cirkus Columbia

  published February 15, 2012

  In small-town southern Herzegovina circa 1992—on the eve of the bloody war in the Balkans—middle-age former villager Divko (Miki... More >>

• Bonsai People: The Vision of Muhammad Yunus

  published February 8, 2012

  Ideal only for the junior-high classroom, Holly Mosher's dull-as-dishwater doc fudges the line between socially progressive message-spreading... More >>

• Private Romeo

  published February 8, 2012

  Although there was a time when only men were allowed to perform Shakespeare, writer-director Alan Brown's queer, all-male riff on Romeo and... More >>

• LMFAO I Can Move Shit with My Mind: Teens with Superpowers in Chronicle

  published February 1, 2012

  In our status-updated, YouTubed, and retweeted age of self-documentation, does the “faux-found-footage” genre—popularized by... More >>

• After Fall, Winter

  published January 25, 2012

  Once nominated for Gawker's "Douche of the Decade," filmmaker-actor Eric Schaeffer (If Lucy Fell) casts himself yet again as an... More >>