Email Author Eric Hynes

2011 Stories by Eric Hynes

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  Tracking a Teenage Mutant Ninja in Hanna

  published April 6, 2011

  The era of the teenage action heroine is fully upon us. As pop-cultural correctives go, it’s a mixed blessing. In one corner, you’ve... More >>

• Wretches & Jabberers: An Info Packet on Autism

  published March 30, 2011

  For what it’s worth, Wretches & Jabberers is never less than clear about its objectives. Two men with autism embark on a worldwide... More >>

• The Music Never Stopped: Clearly the Product of Too Much Time in Development Hell

  published March 16, 2011

  Based on a typically heart-wrenching case study by Oliver Sacks, this admirably modest adaptation tells the story of Gabriel Sawyer (Lou Taylor... More >>

• Rare Locales, Too-Familiar Storytelling in The Gift to Stalin

  published March 16, 2011

  From postwar Soviet purges to remote Kazakh landscapes, The Gift to Stalin depicts events and locales rarely seen on film—even as... More >>

• Apichatpong Weerasethakul Looks Inward and Outward With His Palme d'Or Winner

  published February 23, 2011

  When Apichatpong Weerasetha-kul was growing up in Thailand, he learned about movies the way kids everywhere did in the 1980s: pushing cassette... More >>

• Peeping at Susan Sarandon's Peepers at BAM

  published February 9, 2011

  She really does have Bette Davis eyes. Her peepers pop, though not as violently as Davis’s; they’re less penetrating than hungering,... More >>

• More Listless Boho Layabouts in Gabi on the Roof in July

  published January 19, 2011

  The product of intense collaboration, intuitive improvisation, and evident commitment from all of its featured players, Gabi on the Roof in... More >>