Email Author Nick Pinkerton

2013 Stories by Nick Pinkerton

• Spoiler Alert

  published February 21, 2013

  Kids born in 1992 can buy beer now, and according to the usual timeline of nostalgia, this means that the fetishization of all things '90s is... More >>

• Ass Kicking, Plato-Style

  published January 31, 2013

  'It's hard to get these things started," says Walter Hill, the dean of the American action movie, speaking to me from Los Angeles. "Action... More >>

• George Stark's Parker

  published January 24, 2013

  In George A. Romero's deeply silly 1993 Stephen King adaptation The Dark Half, Timothy Hutton stars as Thad Beaumont, a writer whose... More >>

• Gangster Squad

  published January 17, 2013

  Originally slated to open in September 2012, Gangster Squad was delayed when the movie-theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado,... More >>

• Promised Land's Hard Sell

  published January 10, 2013

  Salesmen are typically depicted in screen drama as the quintessential American phonies. The exceptions — in Barry Levinson's... More >>