Email Author Nick Pinkerton

2009 Stories by Nick Pinkerton

• Carlos Saura's Fados Reviews a Portuguese Folk Tradition

  published March 4, 2009

  "The Fado" is a dolorous folksong tradition from Portugal, first sung in the early 19th century by barefoot peasants mending nets and... More >>

• Echelon Conspiracy

  published March 4, 2009

  The box-office suicide title refers to the National Security Agency’s database for collecting surveillance material. Echelon... More >>

• Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience, Starring Fountains of Sticky, White Goo

  published February 25, 2009

  Following the franchise template of fellow Hollywood Records–Disney property Miley Cyrus, here's a dose of America's favorite soft-serve... More >>

• The Trouble With Romance Hosts a Roaring Void of Talent

  published February 25, 2009

  One hotel, one night, four couples (with their sundry third and fourth wheels—all involved parties loathsome), and four skits involving... More >>

• 'Ventana al Sur: An Evening of Argentine Experimental Films'

  published February 18, 2009

  Anthology spills out a grab bag of short shorts from way South, the majority completed over the last few years. Sparse Super-8 Espectro... More >>

• Guy Debord Mini-Fest and the Rest of the Retro Lineup Carry Film Comment Selects

  published February 18, 2009

  With Mondo Kim's now shuttered, New York cineastes must realize that nothing can be taken for granted. Don't fail, then, to commemorate the... More >>

• Life. Support. Music. Sad. Story. Bad. Movie.

  published February 4, 2009

  The material covered in the documentary Life. Support. Music. could bring any stoic to convulsive tears. The film's subject, Jason... More >>

• Of Hackery and Wizard Hats in Yawn-Worthy Colour of Magic

  published January 28, 2009

  Why pretend all genres are created equal? Edmund Wilson couldn't stomach mysteries, and said as much in "Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?"... More >>

• 'Positif Celebrates American Cinema'

  published January 28, 2009

  The Other French Film Magazine screens its favorite American indies in "Mavericks and Outsiders: Positif Celebrates American Cinema,"... More >>

• Donkey Punch Exceeds Its Smutty Titling with Workmanlike Thriller

  published January 21, 2009

  The personnel behind Donkey Punch could've released anything with such a "No way" title—if you haven't been on the Internet... More >>

• Brendan Fraser's Inkheart Intones Literary Fluff

  published January 21, 2009

  Brendan "Kids' Choice" Fraser returns to the multiplex day-care as Mo Folchart, antiquarian-book-repairman-cum-adventurer and member of a race... More >>

• The Unborn Raids the Modern Horror Memory Bank

  published January 7, 2009

  For as long as it forges ahead without explanations, The Unborn works, in its way, as a series of snap-cut gotchas introducing each new... More >>