Email Author Nick Pinkerton

2010 Stories by Nick Pinkerton

• Bad Accents, Bad Acting, Bad Idea: As Good As Dead

  published October 6, 2010

  Want to be one of a dozen to ever see a movie?* With a title that could be an uncharitable joke about the careers of leads Cary Elwes, Andie... More >>

• Rape, Revenge, Repeat in I Spit On Your Grave

  published October 6, 2010

  SyFy Network house director Steven R. Monroe remakes Meir Zarchi’s 1978 quintessential revenge-rape/rape-revenge film. Jennifer (Sarah... More >>

• Two Indias: The Have and Have-Nots of Bombay Summer

  published October 6, 2010

  Geetha (Tannishtha Chatterjee), a modern gal all the way, earns her keep at a Bombay graphic-design firm and carries on a clandestine affair... More >>

• Wes Craven's First 3-D Picture

  published October 6, 2010

  This is the first 3-D picture from Master of (Mediocre) Horror Wes Craven. I know it's in 3-D not because of any additional depth-of-field... More >>

• More Vampire YA in Let Me In

  published September 29, 2010

  An orphan for all practical purposes, 12-year-old Owen (Kodi Smit-McPhee) has been left to sprout like a weed. At home, he gets sparse... More >>

• With Characters Named Too Cool, Dog, and Beaver, Speed-Dating Already Won

  published September 29, 2010

  When we meet Too Cool, Dog, and Beaver (Wesley Jonathan, Chico Benymon, and Leonard Robinson), their partnership revolves around trumping up... More >>

• 72 Hours With the Best (and Worst) of NYC in Ensemble Pic The Hungry Ghosts

  published September 29, 2010

  Jouncing between acting exercises, The Hungry Ghosts’ umbrella theme is the search for some holistic wellness in the hectic,... More >>

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  Wall Street Bails Out the Bad Guys

  published September 22, 2010

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

• Ben Affleck, Caught Between Redemption, Action, and Boston in The Town

  published September 15, 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 >>

• Desperate Souls Meet Online in Catfish

  published September 15, 2010

  Catfish comes in at 89 minutes—just long enough to sustain the suspense in a setup that starts to play out like pure... More >>

• Married and Miserable in The Freebie

  published September 15, 2010

  Annie and Darren are a married thirtysomething Los Angelino couple coddled in childless comfort (Katie Aselton, in her directorial debut, stars... More >>

• Not Even Katie Holmes and Josh Duhamel Can Save True Love in The Romantics

  published September 8, 2010

  As Galt Niederhoffer's comedy-of-no-manners begins, seven college friends, now closing in on their thirties, come together for the wedding of... More >>

• Genius Within a Tribute to Glenn Gould, Oxymoron

  published September 8, 2010

  Michele Hozer and Peter Raymont's portrait of idiosyncratic Canadian piano prodigy Glenn Gould bedecks their subject's early grave with homage.... More >>

• Cops and Robbers: Tracking Brazil's Kidnapping Machine in Sequestro

  published September 8, 2010

  Much of Sequestro looks, basically, like COPS: Cameraman joins task-force rush, following bristling guns through a kicked-in... More >>

• Time Capsules

  published September 1, 2010

  The first installment of Time Inc.'s newsreel series March of Time premiered at New York's Capitol Theatre in February 1935. Presented... More >>

• Max Manus Celebrates the Intrepid Norwegian Adventurer

  published September 1, 2010

  Joachim Roenning and Espen Sandberg give the lying-in-state biopic salute to Max Manus, an adventurer who was one of the most intrepid and... More >>

• Remake of Blood Simple: A Woman, A Gun and a Noodle Shop

  published September 1, 2010

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

• Emergo! Percepto! Illusion-o! The William Castle Circus Comes to Town

  published August 25, 2010

  It wasn't the film critics who granted producer-director William "King of Gimmicks" Castle his measure of immortality. Castle's fan... More >>

• Trembling Before God and the Handheld in The Last Exorcism

  published August 25, 2010

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

• Vampires Suck Sucks

  published August 18, 2010

  Writer-director team Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer continue to act as the drain trap to our pop-culture toilet. The Date Movie and... More >>

• Stallone Hawks Nostalgia in The Expendables

  published August 11, 2010

  "If the money's right, we don't care where the job is." So explains the leader of hired-gun task force The Expendables, Barney Ross (Sylvester... More >>

• Fuck-Buddy Nostalgia in The People I've Slept With

  published August 11, 2010

  Angela (Karin Anna Cheung) is a proud party-girl who, as this yarn begins, is in the practice of getting raw-dogged in bar bathrooms by... More >>

• Memento-Lite in Macao: Johnnie To's Vengeance

  published August 11, 2010

  This French–Hong Kong co-production imports France's pop icon Johnny Hallyday to the element-swept universe of Johnnie To. Hallyday dons a... More >>

• Two Blondes Are Better Than One: On Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Eccentricities of a Blonde-Hair Girl

  published August 4, 2010

  Serialized in Harper's Bazaar, the diary of flapper Lorelei Lee was a Jazz Age sensation. Lorelei's spelling was as bad as F. Scott... More >>

• The Other Guys, the Latest Will Ferrell-Adam McKay Copout

  published August 4, 2010

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