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2012 Stories by Nick Pinkerton

• BAMcinemaFest 2012: Coming of Age

  published June 20, 2012

  The BAMcinemaFest is only slightly more an established Kings Co. institution than the Brooklyn Nets, but it needs scant introduction entering... More >>

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  Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

  published June 20, 2012

  The logical outer limit of the whole horror-as-metaphor thing, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter shoehorns the entire personal history of the... More >>

• Rock of Ages Posits Hair Metal as Something Un-awful

  published June 13, 2012

  Rock of Ages, a new star-clogged pop-musical diversion, is a cinematic event. It's not every day, after all, that you get to see two... More >>

• The Slow, Sad Crumbling of Urban America in Sometimes Cities

  published June 13, 2012

  Urban planning and its discontents might seem like dry subjects for a night at the movies, but given how many copies of The Death and Life... More >>

• That's My Boy

  published June 13, 2012

  The year is 1984. The premise: Van Halen’s 1984—specifically, “Hot for Teacher.” In time-tested... More >>

• Tony Buba's Home Movies

  published June 6, 2012

  The last bit of film-related news that I heard out of Braddock, Pennsylvania, came in 2009 Times piece of the city’s tatted-up... More >>

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  Prometheus: The Tree of Death

  published June 6, 2012

  Arriving in theaters on the back of a portentous ad campaign, Ridley Scott's Prometheus assumes the air of something more than a summer... More >>

• Life After Love Ain't Easy in Forgotten Gem We Won't Grow Old Together

  published June 6, 2012

  We Won't Grow Old Together, Maurice Pialat's second feature, was made between films about an unwanted foster child's search for a home... More >>

• Dark Horse: Genetic-Lotto Losers in the Jersey Suburbs

  published June 6, 2012

  "People always end up the way they started out. No one ever changes," one character says in Todd Solondz's significantly titled 2004 film... More >>

• For Greater Glory

  published May 30, 2012

  Boasting such attributes as a rich, unmined vein of history for its subject matter, the Biblical landscape of northern Mexico for its backdrop,... More >>

• Snow White and the Huntsman

  published May 30, 2012

  Around the same age that they're usually hearing fairy tales for the first time, children have a tendency to compulsively ask "Why?" questions.... More >>

• Piranha 3DD

  published May 30, 2012

  Piranha 3DD takes pains to retain many of the elements of its 2010 predecessor: topless women, copious piranha’s-eye-view shots of... More >>

• The Woman in the Septic Tank: Poverty Film Farce

  published May 23, 2012

  The Woman in the Septic Tank is a cheeky backstage farce of the poverty-film genre frequently exported by developing nations—here,... More >>

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  Men in Black 3: The Bummer of '69

  published May 23, 2012

  Can any one of the millions of Americans who saw Men in Black 2 in 2002 describe its plot today? A single scene? I saw both MIB... More >>

• Family Ties that Break and Bind in Elena and The Color Wheel

  published May 16, 2012

  Andrey Zvyagintsev's Elena is a tale of two apartments. The film is bookended by shots that look in, covetously, on a spacious chrome,... More >>

• Morgan Spurlock Scratches the Surface of Your Stupid Beard in Mansome

  published May 16, 2012

  'I think that men are having an identity crisis, but they don't really know it." So says "biological anthropologist" Helen Fisher, speaking in... More >>

• Battleship: Because Every Generation Needs an Armageddon

  published May 16, 2012

  Every once in a while, a movie comes along that’s so utterly shameless that it achieves a certain grandeur. Peter Berg’s... More >>

• Lovely Molly

  published May 16, 2012

  The "name" connected to Lovely Molly is that of director Eduardo Sánchez, one of the perpetrators of 1999's Blair Witch... More >>

• Vampires, All of Them: On Dark Shadows and God Bless America

  published May 9, 2012

  A significant portion of Tim Burton's output over the past decade has been concerned with slipping the "Burton treatment" to susceptible texts:... More >>

• Portrait of Wally

  published May 9, 2012

  Aside from incalculable human cost, World War II left property-rights issues whose repercussions are felt to this day in its wake. Nowhere is... More >>

• The Observers

  published May 9, 2012

  Jacqueline Goss is an experimental filmmaker whose short works using free-ranging associations, 2-D digital graphics, and apposite tidbits... More >>

• Renior's Grand Illusion Just Got Grander

  published May 9, 2012

  Jean Renoir’s Grand Illusion opened in an anxious France in June of 1937, as wars were going badly for the Spanish and Chinese... More >>

• The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

  published May 2, 2012

  The British have practically cornered the multiplex's senior demo (think Waking Ned Devine and Calendar Girls) and look to be... More >>

• Mother's Day

  published May 2, 2012

  The domestic-hostage film is the elimination-style reality-TV show of thriller movies, both of which offer the spectacle of personalities... More >>

• A Little Bit of Heaven

  published May 2, 2012

  A successful young New Orleans ad exec living a no-frills, booty-on-call, single-by-choice lifestyle, Marley Corbett has a sunny irreverence... More >>