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2010 Stories by Nick Pinkerton

• Four books, three films, and one very rotten Yorkshire in Red Riding

  published February 24, 2010

  Now a 305-minute triptych film, Red Riding originated in the novels of Ossett-bred David Peace, written in Tokyo and published between... More >>

• The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers

  published February 17, 2010

  Daniel Ellsberg was an ex-Marine, trusted analyst, and Cold Warrior under Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, who, “from the entrails of... More >>

• Scorsese's head-trip Shutter Island is the good kind of insane

  published February 17, 2010

  Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island, a florid art shocker Paramount welcomed into the world with the strained enthusiasm of a mutant baby's... More >>

• Leonard Cohen Live at the Isle of Wight 1970

  published February 17, 2010

  This latest from the cottage industry of Cohen-in-concert memorabilia (I'm Your Man, Under Review, Live in London) offers the... More >>

• Storms Never Last

  published February 10, 2010

  Yesterday's honky-tonk hero, Bad Blake, arrives at a Clovis, New Mexico, bowling alley. It's another in a string of low-pay, low-turnout gigs with... More >>

• From Paris with Love, John Travolta's cowboy diplomacy

  published February 3, 2010

  As personal assistant to the U.S. Ambassador to France, James Reese (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) can keep himself in well-tailored suits and keep his... More >>

• The House of the Devil

  published January 27, 2010

  The Devil, apparently, lives in an out-of-the-way gingerbread Victorian, just past the cemetery, where college sophomore Samantha (Jocelin... More >>

• Edge of Darkness: Mel Gibson gets some kind of revenge

  published January 27, 2010

  "Did you shoot my daughtah?" is the question posed, in flat-voweled Bostonian, in the trailer for Edge of Darkness. And Mel Gibson,... More >>

• Kicking ass for Jesus: The Book of Eli is a little warped

  published January 13, 2010

  Directors Allen and Albert Hughes were raised by an Armenian mother and African-American father. With such a... More >>