Entertainment
Will the real Bond please stand up?
There’s no more iconic spy in Western culture than 007, Bond, James Bond, and with a 50-year cinematic history, the 22 previous films in the franchise also represent an extraordinary body of cinematic work. The character of suave but deadly Bond has been played by a ...
Here is the school. Here is the steeple.
The year is 2243. The Philadelphia Eagles have just won their first Super Bowl. And much to everyone’s surprise, God himself decides to take a leisurely stroll down 5th Avenue in New York City (now known as Little Beijing) with his arm ensconced firmly in the ...
This Lande is our Lande
Haven’t we heard it all before? I know you’re thinking political ads, but the same is often said about music. The response to that question is a local sextet unlike anything you’ve ever listened to before. And if you think you have, just wait five minutes for your ...
Harrison Ford ‘open to’ reprising Han Solo role
With the news that Disney has purchased George Lucas' Star Wars franchise and is considering making new films, public speculation is flying over the content and the stars...
McCartney: Yoko didn’t break up the Beatles
Nothing's more gripping and thrilling than 40-year-old debates, right? Right folks...
Partly sunny
To steal from Mother Goose (don’t worry, she’s dead): When Cloud Atlas is good, it’s very, very good; when it’s bad, Hugo Weaving is doing a drag impression of Nurse Ratched. The ambition of writers/directors Lana and Andy Wachowski and Tom Twyker, working from David...
No-town music
At its worst, cinema verite is aimless pretense masquerading as artistic intent. At its best, it is Detropia, a documentary that adds soul to statistics, going inside the implosion of a once-proud city using a sprawling, haunting approach. That isn’t to say that ...
From an immigrant´s perspective
In Boulder, talk of changing seasons can lead to anxiety, happiness, or resolution. But what if we had to experience serious change, such as moving into a new environment or changing from a democracy to a dictatorship? Chances are, our interpretation of things wouldn...
Of beer and bands
Kyle Hollingsworth, keyboardist extraordinaire, sees a lot of similarities between making music and brewing beer, his two passions of late. Within each combination of hops and grains, each interjection of an off-color chord into a jam, there’s an element of chance ...
‘Cloud Atlas:’ Even after two viewings, Roger Ebert mystified
Cloud Atlas, the film adaptation of a David Mitchell novel previously called "impossible" to make into a movie, has stumped one of the best and most outspoken film critics alive...
