Email Author Nick Pinkerton

2010 Stories by Nick Pinkerton

• Repo Men: A Poor Man's Daybreakers

  published March 18, 2010

  Another wholesale dystopian future, just like the last one. Jude Law and Forest Whitaker are two repo men punching their timecards for The... More >>

• Remember Me Review: Love, Angst, and Something Else Is in the Air

  published March 11, 2010

  Putatively a new romance starring Robert Pattinson, Remember Me begins like a vigilante movie: a Brooklyn subway platform, 1991; a... More >>

• Shutter Island by Martin Scorsese Is the Good Kind of Insane

  published February 18, 2010

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

• From Paris With Love Review: John Travolta Delivers Cowboy Diplomacy

  published February 4, 2010

  As personal assistant to the U.S. ambassador to France, Richard Stevens (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) can keep himself in well-tailored suits and keep... More >>

• In Crazy Heart, Country Music, Faded Stardom, Liquor, and Age

  published January 28, 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... More >>

• Edge of Darkness Review: Mel Gibson Gets Revenge With Semi-Successful Flick

  published January 28, 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 >>

• Extraordinary Measures Review: Like it Was Made for TV

  published January 21, 2010

  This is the first release by CBS Films, and looks it. "Did you see Harrison Ford has a TV show coming out?" asked a friend who'd seen a prime-time... More >>

• The Book of Eli's Post-Apocalyptic Theology Is a Little Warped

  published January 14, 2010

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