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An indecisive mash-up

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I take notes as I watch films so that I can remember salient plot points, great effects, and idiotic story twists. During The Other Guys, I wrote down “buddy cop film from hell.” That might well sum up the weird mash-up that is The Other Guys, a movie that can’t ...

Down to business; business accomplished

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Getting low means getting down to business, in the parlance of the backwoods oddity played, wonderfully, by Robert Duvall in Get Low. Let’s get down to business, then. This film, calm but full of feeling, relays an intriguing story brought to life by some ...

Pretty Lights shine at Red Rocks

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Fort Collins DJ Derek Smith, aka Pretty Lights, has quietly built himself into one of the most potent DJ acts this side of the Rocky Mountains, and he has done it mostly via word of mouth and by offering all his music as free downloads from his website...

Starring in ‘The Big C’ doesn’t mean a big head for...

PASADENA, Calif. — It took a deadly disease to coax Laura Linney back to TV. But that's not a bad thing. Linney is starring in a surprisingly upbeat comedy series, "The Big C" on Showtime, premiering Aug. 16...

How ‘Scott Pilgrim’ went from comic book to movie

Hollywood's obsession with comic books led to media giant Walt Disney Co.'s $4.3-billion acquisition of Marvel Entertainment and Warner Bros.' decision to revamp its DC Entertainment unit...

Oscar-winning actress Patricia Neal dies at 84

LOS ANGELES — Actress Patricia Neal...

Queens of the Stone Age reissue landmark album

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Rated R put Queens of the Stone Age on the rock map as a force to be reckoned with in 2000. Led by singer-guitarist-songwriter Josh Homme and bassist Nick Oliveri, both of influential stoner-metal band Kyuss, Queens of the Stone Age went on to produce some of the ...

Movie for schmucks

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Dinner for Schmucks is a remake for schlemiels, or at least easy marks when it comes to formulaic Hollywood comedy. But the film’s peculiar sluggishness and nagging hypocrisy probably won’t get in the way of its popularity. It has a lot of funny people going for ...

Zac Efron cries a lot

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The Motion Picture Association of America has given Charlie St. Cloud a PG-13 rating for, among other things, “an intense accident scene,” which is the best way to describe the film itself. With some supernatural melodramas, you may buy what’s on the page, as with...

Homeward bound for Pretty Lights

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It might be a shame that Pretty Lights hasn’t enjoyed the same self-congratulatory media coverage given to fellow Colorado acts (cough, 3Oh!3, ahem) with a vapid “Look, they’re from Colorado!” type of praise. It would only be a shame if producer Derek Smith ever ...

Heaven Fest 2010

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Gathering some 35,000 people from a half dozen Western states on a huge tract of land in Longmont and presenting 70 of the best contemporary Christian musical acts on seven stages, Heaven Fest 2010 seemed to offer many of the same features you’d find in just about ...

Sharpening her sixth sense

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Contrary to what you may have seen or heard recently, not everything is going smoothly for Grace Potter & The Nocturnals these days...