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Caesar Must Die Movie Review

By Nick Pinkerton
May 30, 2013

Spend some time among a gallery of noble busts depicting Roman Senators, and familiar faces begin to emerge among the ancient marble: The mechanic, an uncle, a politician from TV . . . and the racketeer from the newspaper. It's this last correlation which concerns Caesar Must Die. Paolo and...
In A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III, Roman Coppola Gives Charlie Sheen the 8 1/2 Treatment

By Nick Pinkerton
Mar 14, 2013

As he's questioned by a therapist in the opening scene of the film bearing his name, we see Charles Swan III's subconscious literally spurt out of his head. It's visualized as an animated collage largely made up of ladies' long, disembodied legs — like those in the '40s pinups that...
Jason Statham Stars in New Iteration of Parker, With J.Lo as His Funny Accomplice

By Nick Pinkerton
Jan 31, 2013

Hollywood hasn't butchered Parker — which is to say that it has let him remain a butcher. The protagonist of a series of thrillers by the author Donald Westlake, writing under the pseudonym Richard Stark, Parker the man is the supreme predator in the criminal jungle. Based on Flashfire, the...
Ass Kicking, Plato-Style: The Great Director Walter Hill Brings a "Bullet" (and Ideas) to Your Head

By Nick Pinkerton
Jan 31, 2013

"It's hard to get these things started," says Walter Hill, dean of the American action movie, speaking from Los Angeles. "Action films are by their very nature more expensive than what are sometimes called, in the independent world, 'relationship films.' But I despise these categories. I've never made a movie...
Michael Haneke's Amour a Chilly, Lauded Rumination on Love, Death

By Nick Pinkerton
Jan 24, 2013

Two things are certain in life. One is that death will come for every one of us. The other is that every film Michael Haneke makes will have a fair shot at the Cannes Palme d'Or. Amour, Haneke's much-garlanded latest, is set almost entirely within a well-appointed Paris apartment, amid...

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