“All the academic discussions of Star Wars and pornography, the non-stop masturbation jokes — Clerks was the closest thing I’d ever seen to my own life in a movie. Hell, not only did I work in a video store, I worked in a video store where Kevin Smith bought LaserDiscs. Watching that movie at the Angelika felt like somebody farted in church.” – Movie Mezzanine, 09/19/2014

“Not to say that Will Ferrell and company were ubiquitous this past December, but when Emerson College announced it was renaming one of its schools the Ron Burgundy School of Communication, the entire cast followed me into the bathroom of a Tremont Street bar and tried to sell me a Dodge Durango.” – The Improper Bostonian, 02/19/2014

“I don’t go to the movies to see my life reflected back upon myself. I always thought the most wonderful thing about movies is that they allow us to get outside of ourselves for just a little while, to experience different worlds and circumstances that we’d otherwise never know. Superman is an aspirational figure, not a mirror.” – RogerEbert.com, 06/14/2013

“’He’s a magnet for the crazy, the weird and the wonderful of cinema,’ Hinkle muses. ‘And while it’s admittedly facetious to subtitle the series Greatest American Actor, I mean it when I say that Cage’s range is something to behold, and his ability to leave it all on the screen is just amazing.’” – The Improper Bostonian, 06/06/2012

“Not a lot of movies leave you sobbing in the opening reel, but Pixar’s masterpiece Up begins with such a breathtaking montage that just hearing snippets of Michael Giacchino’s score is enough to make me misty. In the end it is about letting go, saying goodbye, and starting over. Pretty heady stuff for a movie with talking dogs.” – The Muriel Awards, 02/28/2010

“You won’t find a finer example of pure, nuts-and-bolts cinematic skill this year than The Hurt Locker. A collection of almost unbearably intense set-pieces shot on shaky 16mm cameras, the movie elicits gasps not through groundbreaking special effects or cutting edge 3-D technology, but with simple, old-fashioned juxtapositions of image and sound.” – The Muriel Awards, 02/27/2010