Email Author Jim Ridley

Awards

• 2006 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published March 24, 2005

  "Blown Opportunity"

• 2006 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published May 19, 2005

  "Lost in the Stars"

• 2006 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published September 1, 2005

  "Pulling Punch Lines"

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2008 Stories by Jim Ridley

• Man on Wire: Philippe Petit's World Trade Center tightrope walk was made for the movies

  published August 7, 2008

  Even as the first girders were laid in the mid-1960s, something about the World Trade Center — that twin-pronged erection jutting from the... More >>

• Wanted delivers the empowered Everyman sentiment of Fight Club, minus the guilt

  published June 26, 2008

  Of the summer's many revenge-of-the-nerd fulfillment fantasies, Wanted stands the best chance of dislodging Fight Club from... More >>

• Mongol paints a historically hazy but kickass picture of Genghis Kahn

  published June 19, 2008

  You want a history lesson? Take a class. You want clanging swords, sneering villains, storybook romance, and bloody vengeance? Here's a brawny... More >>

• Son of Rambow: A movie that celebrates why we make movies

  published May 8, 2008

  No adult has ever been able to codify what separates a good movie from a classic. In kid terms, though — those favored by Son of... More >>

• The thin man: Simon Pegg is an honorary heavyweight in Run Fat Boy Run

  published March 27, 2008

  As John Simon once said of Jeanne Moreau — cast in a virginal role — making Simon Pegg a fat guy is like casting Lassie as a... More >>

• Michael Haneke's Funny Games is heavy on the rough stuff

  published March 13, 2008

  For the crime of obliterating high culture, for the crime of getting off on vicarious degradation — and, above all, for the crime of sitting... More >>

• Chafing dishes

  published February 14, 2008

  No Reservations (Warner Bros.) From its cheap, mid-'90s-looking package to its woefully scant extras (one pre-chewed... More >>

• Twenty years later, Rambo is still America's finest, if dumbest, killing machine

  published January 31, 2008

  A fourth Rambo? The question isn't why; it's what took him so long. Was America's avenging angel of meat just planning to sit out Fallujah and... More >>

• A sports doc for geeks? The King of Kong brings it on, now on DVD

  published January 31, 2008

  The King of Kong (New Line) Seth Gordon's best-of-2007 documentary about the battle for Donkey Kong supremacy remains a work in... More >>

• The Orphanage: A Spanish-language creepfest that echoes Pan’s Labyrinth

  published January 10, 2008

  Having a child destroys your immune system to horror, real or imagined. Before the blessed event, you could laugh off The Exorcist, The... More >>

• Final Cut

  published January 3, 2008

  It's that time of year again. Our six critics don't always (or often) agree, but we've combined their top 10 lists (allowing for ties) to pretend... More >>

• Missed Opportunities

  published January 3, 2008

  How tough is it for a movie to find its audience, above the din of blockbuster marketing and beyond the clogged distribution pipeline? Tsai... More >>

• Counter-Strike

  published January 3, 2008

  The year: 2505. Your viewing choices tonight: an oldie but a goodie — a picture called Ass, a feature-length screensaver of butt... More >>