Email Author NICK SCHAGER
2013 Stories by NICK SCHAGER
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Disney TV Is Poisoning Your Daughters
published June 20, 2013
I recognize that, even coming from a father of two preteen daughters, that might sound alarmist, so let me elaborate—the Disney Channel... More >>
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After 44 Years, Hollywood is Finally Smart Enough to Make a Judy Blume Movie
published June 13, 2013
Judy Blume's first novel, The One in the Middle is the Green Kangaroo, was published in 1969, yet it's only now, 44 years later, that... More >>
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After Auteur: How M. Night Shyamalan Became Just Another Director
published May 30, 2013
Wait, you didn't know that After Earth, the Will Smith–Jaden Smith sci-fi adventure hitting theaters this weekend, is the latest... More >>
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Ethan Hawke, Before and After
published May 16, 2013
Before Midnight may be the greatest film ever made about impermanence—a fitting theme for a work that also reestablishes the... More >>
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Uwe Boll, Worst Director Alive, to Wall Street Execs: 'Don't Think You're Safe'
published May 9, 2013
Uwe Boll will no longer fight you—at least, not with his fists. Often lambasted by critics as the worst of the worst, Boll once actually... More >>
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'Love and Honor' Goes Soft
published March 21, 2013
The CW version of the Vietnam War and the 1969 counterculture, Love and Honor hews to a mushy formula far older than its subject... More >>
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In 'Stoker,' Girlhood Blooms Into Violence
published February 28, 2013
Puberty is sex and sex is murder in Stoker, a Hitchcockian stew of hothouse familial jealousy, sadism and psychosis, all tied together... More >>
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Feast of Appetizers
published January 31, 2013
There's scant dialogue, but plenty of eloquent storytelling in the five animated short films up for a 2013 Oscar. Save for a five-minute... More >>
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'The Baytown Outlaws': Diligently Profane and Inane
published January 10, 2013
It's redneck killers for hire versus stripper assassins, African-American pirates and Native American warriors—all hired by a Latino drug... More >>
