Email Author Nick Pinkerton

2011 Stories by Nick Pinkerton

• Dog Sweat

  published November 9, 2011

  Dog Sweat skips among the loosely connected lives of six young Iranians whose desires chafe against the social and fundamentalist political... More >>

• Immortals

  published November 9, 2011

  The last thing you see in Immortals is a pair of eyes, popped wide open, filling the screen. That’s exactly how director Tarsem Singh... More >>

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  Tower Heist: Stealing From the Rich to. . . Make a Funny Movie

  published November 2, 2011

  A revenge of the have-nots playing on the clear class stratification of the luxury high-rise, Tower Heist pits lobby against penthouse.... More >>

• Stuck Between Stations

  published November 2, 2011

  Becky (Zoe Lister Jones) is a grad student, sexually entangled with department faculty, in comp lit; Casper (Sam Rosen, also credited as... More >>

• 5 Star Day

  published November 2, 2011

  Promised a wonderful “5 Star Day” by his horoscope, Jake Gibson (Cam Gigandet) instead loses his job, his girlfriend, and his car in... More >>

• Last Rites of Joe May

  published November 2, 2011

  A sixtysomething short money hustler who has spent his life on the Chicago streets, Joe May (Dennis Farina) is leaving the hospital after a bout... More >>

• A Death in the Family: Anthology Honors David C. Stone

  published October 26, 2011

  In paying tribute to producer and transatlantic experimental-film impresario David C. Stone, Anthology Film Archives honors the lifetime of new... More >>

• Much Ado About Very Little in Anonymous

  published October 26, 2011

  Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, is the close-second candidate to be attributed authorship of the 37 plays of William Shakespeare, the... More >>

• Like Crazy

  published October 26, 2011

  Anna (Felicity Jones) is an aspiring journalist, a wee wisp of a girl come from Britain to study in Los Angeles, where she meets cute with Jacob... More >>

• Score! Film Forum Reminds Us Who Put More Psycho in Psycho

  published October 19, 2011

  "My feelings and yearnings are those of a composer of the 19th century,” wrote self-identified neo-romantic composer Bernard Herrmann in... More >>

• Klitschko

  published October 19, 2011

  On the heels of the turgid battling-brothers drama Warrior, Sebastian Dehnhardt’s flashily edited German documentary arrives,... More >>

• Struggling in New NY, Still Mourning for the Old One in Happy Life

  published October 12, 2011

  Keith (Tom McCaffrey), the subject of character study Happy Life, is the 35-year-old proprietor of the record store New York Tunez and a DJ... More >>

• Cops on the Prowl for a Swampland Murderer in Texas Killing Fields

  published October 12, 2011

  Detectives Souder and Heigh (Sam Worthington and Jeffrey Dean Morgan) are two Texas City cops investigating a string of killings whose female... More >>

• Huckster Makes a Late-life Conversion to Family Man in Father of Invention

  published October 12, 2011

  It is an unquestioned truism of recent American movies from Marmaduke to The Descendants that working hard at a job is tantamount to... More >>

• Immigrant Song, A Journey in Fragments in The Nine Muses

  published October 5, 2011

  Anglo-Ghanian filmmaker John Akomfrah’s feature montage The Nine Muses is a running dialogue between its different layers. There is a... More >>

• Two Harvard Grads, Two WWII Stories, in A Twentieth Century Tale

  published October 5, 2011

  A brief, loose, and rather meager addition to the swaying pile of WWII-ephemera documentaries, Richard Kaplan’s A 20th Century Tale... More >>

• Robot on the Ropes, Love or Something Like It in His Corner in Real Steel

  published October 5, 2011

  Charlie Kenton (Hugh Jackman) is a two-bit trainer traveling the state-fair circuit in a not-too-distant future. His line is robot fighting, a... More >>

• 1911: Jackie Chan, What Happened?

  published October 5, 2011

  Once upon a time in Hong Kong, there was a man named Jackie Chan who made reckless, bounding, entertaining movies. You might squint and see that... More >>

• NYFF: Life is (Alexander) Payne

  published September 28, 2011

  I don’t think about the home where my films will land,” says Alexander Payne, free-range in a film culture fenced off into art house... More >>

• They Pulled Him Back In: One Last Job in Killer Elite

  published September 21, 2011

  Wholly unrelated to the 1975 Sam Peckinpah film of the same name, Killer Elite is distinguished by one no-mercy, eye-gouging,... More >>

• Fighting the Good Fight Against Big Pharma and His Own Demons in Puncture

  published September 21, 2011

  Puncture is proudly “Based on a True Story.” As is so often the case, this means an indifference to “true” human... More >>

• Portrait of the Foodie as a Young Man in Toast

  published September 21, 2011

  Premiered as a BBC1 telefilm, now flaunting its wasteful widescreen in theaters, Toast adapts the autobiography of Nigel Slater, a... More >>

• Inside a Masterpiece, and Creating a New One in The Mill and the Cross

  published September 14, 2011

  An extraordinary example of both art-historical interpretation and CGI as passport to unknown lands, The Mill and the Cross, based on a... More >>

• Piggish Hollywood on Trial in Exhibit A Prince of Swine

  published September 14, 2011

  Mark Toma adapts his own Off Broadway play, the events of which are set in motion when a rampantly misogynistic producer, foamingly played by... More >>

• Straw Dogs

  published September 14, 2011

  It is knee-jerk to decry the remake, but to the credit of writer-director Rod Lurie, who has adapted Sam Peckinpah’s U.K.-set 1971 film into... More >>