Email Author Nick Pinkerton

2011 Stories by Nick Pinkerton

• "Miral": Julian Schnabel's Newest Has Plenty of Style, Little Substance

  published March 30, 2011

  A U.N. premiere! A Vanessa Redgrave cameo! Zionist hoodlums! Distributors the Weinstein Company and director Julian Schnabel overcome their... More >>

• "Insidious": "Saw" Creators Build Their Own Haunted House

  published March 30, 2011

  There is a great deal of prowling motion in Insidious: a recurring sideways dolly outside an ominous house, a trenchcoat-clad cacodemon... More >>

• "Take Me Home Tonight": Coke-Fueled '80s Nostalgia

  published March 2, 2011

  Ink still wet on his MIT degree, Matt Franklin (Topher Grace) is back in hometown Los Angeles, waiting for his future to clarify itself while... More >>

• "Hall Pass": The Farrellys Have a Midlife Crisis

  published February 23, 2011

  Rick and Fred (Owen Wilson and Jason Sudeikis) are two domesticated husbands whose long marriages (to Jenna Fischer and Christina Applegate,... More >>

• New Take on Old Legend

  published February 23, 2011

  In Yony Leyser's documentary hagiography, William S. Burroughs: A Man Within — which ends with John Waters nominating its... More >>

• "The Rite": Anthony Hopkins can't exorcise bad writing

  published January 26, 2011

  The Rite is the latest of at least a dozen widely released American movies in half as many years with demonic possession as a major plot... More >>

• "The Strange Case of Angelica": The power of a spirit's smile

  published January 5, 2011

  In 1952, Manoel de Oliveira sketched a fable of impossible longing that became, finally, The Strange Case of Angelica. Though the... More >>