Email Author Rob Nelson

Awards

• 2008 - Page One Contest/Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists, published July 4, 2007

  "L.A. Plays Itself"

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2006 Stories by Rob Nelson

• 2006: The Year in Movies

  published December 27, 2006

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• Rocky v. Ahmadinejad

  published December 20, 2006

  Bankrupt and brain-damaged in Rocky V, a bout fought so long ago that the other Bush was still sucker-punching Saddam, Sylvester... More >>

• The Man Who Loved Women

  published December 20, 2006

  Men are literally disposable in Pedro Almodóvar's Volver. But the film, particularly for fans of the gynophilic, flamboyantly... More >>

• Don't Know Smack

  published December 13, 2006

  Heath Ledger and Abbie Cornish play unbelievably gorgeous heroin junkies in Candy, a don't-try-this-at-home melodrama adapted from... More >>

• A Guide to Recognizing Your Shrinks

  published October 25, 2006

  "I guess it doesn't matter where I begin," reasons the adult narrator of Running with Scissors, the inevitable Oscar contender adapted from... More >>

• Hometown Legend

  published October 11, 2006

  They say youse can never go home again. Nevertheless, Queens-bred big-timer Dito Montiel revisits his old Astoria stomping grounds in A... More >>

• Truly, Madly, Darkly

  published July 12, 2006

  Slipped into the summer movie season like acid in your Happy Meal, Richard Linklater's A Scanner Darkly is a blockbuster of... More >>

• Cruella de Vogue

  published June 28, 2006

  For an industry in decline, print journalism has done a fashion publicist's job of staying in vogue, particularly among the more stylish of... More >>

• The Bad Seeds

  published June 21, 2006

  Trotted out like ol' Trigger whenever there's a movie with saddles and six-shooters, the term "revisionist western" would surely be a... More >>

• The Long Goodbye

  published June 7, 2006

  Like the Grand Ole Opry plopped into a fragrant barn at the county fair, Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion befits its... More >>

• Fahrenheit 2050

  published June 7, 2006

  With ice caps melting, sea levels rising and Poseidon sinking fast, this is no environment for any disaster movie — particularly a... More >>

• Belgian Waffling

  published May 17, 2006

  Amid brutal competition from A History of Violence, Caché (Hidden) and Last Days, the top prize at last year's Cannes... More >>

• Thank Hell for Little Girls

  published April 26, 2006

  The Darwinian theory that schlocksploitation must tighten its twist of the nuts with each new release will be tested strenuously for years —... More >>