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Whodunit in the thriller John Dies at the End? The '90s.

By Nick Pinkerton
Feb 20, 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 already well underway. And while John Dies at the End is assuredly a product of today's online world, it feels remarkably like the work...
Ass Kicking, Plato-Style

The great director Walter Hill brings a Bullet (and ideas) to your head.

By Nick Pinkerton
Jan 30, 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 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...
George Stark's Parker

Rough guide to a rough guy

By Nick Pinkerton
Jan 23, 2013

In George A. Romero's deeply silly 1993 Stephen King adaptation The Dark Half, Timothy Hutton stars as Thad Beaumont, a writer whose highbrow pretensions don't pay the bills. When Thad needs to make a quick buck, then, he seals himself into his study and grinds out a nihilistic thriller to...
Gangster Squad

retelling the stories of better movies.

By Nick Pinkerton
Jan 16, 2013

Originally slated to open in September 2012, Gangster Squad was delayed when the movie-theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado, suddenly made a scene of gunfire in Grauman's Chinese Theatre "inappropriate." Four months later, a turn in the film's plot that relies on gunning down an adolescent risks recalling Newtown, but the...
Promised Land's Hard Sell

For Matt Damon and company, the message is the message.

By Nick Pinkerton
Jan 9, 2013

Salesmen are typically depicted in screen drama as the quintessential American phonies. The exceptions — in Barry Levinson's Avalon or Whit Stillman's Barcelona — are buried under a mountain of films proving the rule. That one set of phonies are being dramatically indicted by actors is an irony that we...

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