Email Author Rob Nelson

Awards

• 2008 - Page One Contest/Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists, published July 4, 2007

  "L.A. Plays Itself"

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2006 Stories by Rob Nelson

• Rocky V. Ahmadinejad

  published December 20, 2006

  Bankrupt and brain-damaged in Rocky V, a bout fought so long ago that the other Bush was still sucker-punching Saddam, Sylvester... More >>

• A League of His Own

  published December 13, 2006

  Movie actors of Nick Nolte's clout (and gender) get to decide right down to the last wrinkle and half-ounce of muscle or flab how they want to age... More >>

• Don't Know Smack

  published December 6, 2006

  Heath Ledger and Abbie Cornish play unbelievably gorgeous heroin junkies in Candy, a don't-try-this-at-home melodrama adapted from... More >>

• The Man Who Loved Women

  published November 22, 2006

  Men are literally disposable in Pedro Almodovar's Volver. But the film, particularly for fans of the gynophilic, flamboyantly... More >>

• A Guide to Recognizing Your Shrinks

  published October 18, 2006

  "I guess it doesn't matter where I begin," reasons the adult narrator of Running With Scissors, the inevitable Oscar contender adapted from... More >>

• Hometown Legend

  published October 11, 2006

  They say youse can never go home again. Nevertheless, Queens-bred big-timer Dito Montiel revisits his old Astoria stomping grounds in A Guide... More >>

• Sorry Raters

  published September 13, 2006

  Among documentary muckrakers, Kirby Dick may not be as righteously indignant as Michael Moore or as brilliantly droll as Nick Broomfield. But say... More >>

• A Schoolteacher Darkly

  published August 23, 2006

  Even curriculum-clutchers might rather leave a child behind than let her learn from Half Nelson's Mr. Dunne (Ryan Gosling), a Brooklyn... More >>

• Downward Mobility

  published August 2, 2006

  The old Lucas/Spielberg stunt of turning B-movie peekaboos into E-ticket thrill rides remains the industry standard — to the virtual... More >>

• Truly, Madly, Darkly

  published July 5, 2006

  Slipped into the summer movie season like acid in your happy meal, Richard Linklater's A Scanner Darkly is a blockbuster of... More >>

• Mortal Combat

  published June 21, 2006

  Set in 1942 and '43, and shot in 1969, Jean-Pierre Melville's Army of Shadows follows a small group of French resistance fighters in their... More >>

• The Long Goodbye

  published June 7, 2006

  Like the Grand Ole Opry plopped into a fragrant barn at the county fair, Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion befits its... More >>

• Fahrenheit 2050

  published May 31, 2006

  With ice caps melting, sea levels rising, and Poseidon sinking fast, this is no environment for any disaster movie — particularly a... More >>

• The Bad Seeds

  published May 24, 2006

  Trotted out like ol' Trigger whenever there's a movie with saddles and six-shooters, the term "revisionist Western" would surely be a... More >>

• Thank Hell for Little Girls

  published April 26, 2006

  The Darwinian theory that schlocksploitation must tighten its twist of the nuts with each new release will be tested strenuously for years —... More >>

• Belgian Waffling

  published April 5, 2006

  Amid brutal competition from A History of Violence, Cache (Hidden), and Last Days, the top prize at last year's Cannes Film... More >>

• My Mother the Fraud

  published March 22, 2006

  Such is the currency of lies these days that "based on an untrue story" might well be a shrewd tag line, if an unusually honest one. Still,... More >>