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reel to reel | Week of May 17, 2012

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4:44 LAST DAY ON EARTH In a large apartment high above the city lives a couple. They’re in love. She’s a painter, he’s a successful actor. Just a normal afternoon — except that this isn’t a normal afternoon, for them or anyone else. Because tomorrow, at 4:44 a.m., ...

‘We were there’

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"Hollywood cinema has had a complicated relationship with race and ethnicity since its very beginning,” says Luis I. Reyes at the beginning of his...

‘Madness in the middle’

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If you’ve seen a hundred Westerns, then you’ve seen it a hundred times: a mysterious figure rides into town looking for someone. With guns...

Reel to reel | Week of November 22, 2012

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ANNA KARENINA...

Sex will kill you

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Director Jonathan Glazer and writer Walter Campbell’s Under the Skin joins the smallest movie subgenre: brilliant but batshit insane...

‘The Revenant’ punishes DiCaprio for Academy love

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Without spoiling whether survivalist/tempting-bear-treat Hugh Glass (Leonardo DiCaprio) survives The Revenant, we can still talk about one climactic shot. DiCaprio, having been maimed in...

Hubris is for rookies

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The John DeLorean story has it all: Cars, cocaine, supermodels, countries at war, political scuffles on both sides of the Atlantic, an FBI sting...

reel to reel | Week of July 12, 2012

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ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER No more sensitive, sparkly vampires — Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter takes bloodsuckers back to their grisly origins as terrifying monsters. In the film’s universe, Southern slave owners are vampires, and President Lincoln is the one...

Noir on the range

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Nowadays we call them noir, but back in the 1940s and ’50s they didn’t have a name. Born out of 1930s hard-boiled novels and...

Ghost in the machine

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On some level, every work of art is a reflection of the human condition. Who we are and how we relate to others and the world around us is the concern of every artist, but for some, that concern is an obsession...

‘The Huntsman: Winter’s War’ is awful good


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God, The Huntsman: Winter’s War should not work. Like, it should cause uncontrollable vomiting and permanent erectile dysfunction. So, sweet Jeebus, do I have...

Denver Film Festival: Brit Withey Tribute

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On March 31, 2019, Colorado lost one of its great champions of cinema: Brit Withey. Withey, who died in a one-car crash, was the artistic...