Email Author Nick Schager

2013 Stories by Nick Schager

• Shanghai Calling Stumbles Through Cutesy Melodrama Towards Preordained Love

  published February 13, 2013

  He's an ambitious Chinese-American lawyer who finds himself a fish out of water when sent to China to close a big deal. She's a blond single... More >>

• The Jeffrey Dahmer Files Uncovers Nothing New

  published February 13, 2013

  Our age's chief exemplar of evil's banality might be Jeffrey Dahmer, the unassuming chocolate factory worker who in 1991 was found to have... More >>

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  The Last Gladiators: Changing in Order to Survive

  published February 13, 2013

  This documentary portrait of professional hockey enforcers—the tough guys who duke it out to protect their team's star... More >>

• A Rubberband Is an Unlikely Instrument: A Torpid, Squeaky Trumpet

  published February 6, 2013

  The push-pull between artistic inclinations and economic realities forms the backbone of A Rubberband Is an Unlikely Instrument, Matt... More >>

• Koch: The No-Nonsense Loudmouth Gets a Doc

  published January 30, 2013

  Love him or hate him, Ed Koch was New York in the 1980s, and Koch's bio account of his mayoral tenure offers almost equal... More >>

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  Feast of Appetizers: Gorge on This Year's Oscar-Nominated Short Films

  published January 30, 2013

  There's scant dialogue but plenty of eloquent storytelling in the five animated short films up for a 2013 Oscar, all of which—along with... More >>

• Resolution: Twisty Meta-Horror Done Right

  published January 23, 2013

  Putting The Cabin in the Woods to shame on a fraction of the budget, Resolution dispenses twisty meta-horror without sacrificing... More >>

• Fairhaven

  published January 9, 2013

  Indies don't come blander than writer/director Tom O'Brien's Fairhaven, a hackneyed tale of reunion set in a small, wintery New England... More >>

• The Baytown Outlaws

  published January 9, 2013

  It's redneck killers for hire versus stripper assassins, African-American pirates, and Native American warriors—all hired by a Latino... More >>

• Storage 24 is a Monster from a Familiar Mother

  published January 9, 2013

  Shrewd horror movies generate terror by crafting their endangered characters in three dimensions—but it helps if those characters,... More >>