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Thanks, Morgan Freeman

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I’ll be honest, in the spirit of the honestly shameless heartwarmer Dolphin Tale. I saw it in a somewhat distracted, agitated state...

Reel to Reel | Week of December 6, 2012

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12 GIFTS OF CHRISTMAS...

Soldiers of cinema

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Unless you’re a real film buff, the name Jeremy Thomas might not mean anything to you. But it should. He is one of the...

Death of the handmade

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Clothes make the man. But who makes the clothes? Nowadays, most of us walk around wearing cookie-cutter shirts, pants and jackets, all produced en masse and for no one in particular. Sure, they come in a variety of standardized sizes, but very few bodies are standard...

Red, white and very blue

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I don’t know who Michael Moore is making movies for at this point. That’s not an indictment or even a suggestion that Where to Invade...

Coming of age

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Since his 1991 debut, Slacker, writer/director Richard Linklater has quietly become the most reflective director in American cinema. In the documentary Double Play: Jack Benning and Richard Linklater (Gabe Klinger 2013), currently available via Video on Demand, he ...

An independent fit for Boulder

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Is Boulder, Colo., the future of independent cinema...

God’s lonely men

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For most, Taxi Driver is summed up by one of the most famous lines in cinema: “You talking to me?” Conveying masculinity and bravado, it readies angry men for battle. But it is misleading. It is an act, a façade. The truth is found in the line that follows: “Well, I’...

‘Shutter Island’ star Leonardo DiCaprio on why he keeps working for...

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"Shutter Island" marks Leonardo DiCaprio's fourth collaboration with director Martin Scorsese. It may also be his most intense, which says a lot when you consider that their previous three films were "Gangs of New York," "The Aviator" and "The Departed...

Where’s the honey?

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Winnie the Pooh, Disney’s latest film revival of A.A. Milne’s “willy, nilly, silly old bear,” is longer on charm than it is on laughs. Or length. But it’s a treat for children making their first trek to the multiplex and for parents and grandparents with fond ...

A gentler Gekko

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A gentler Gekko...

Unlikely combinations

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Mildly funny adventures in extreme baby-sitting, director David Gordon Green’s The Sitter finds its emblematic moment in the scene of Sam Rockwell, playing a Brooklyn drug dealer, joking around and then suddenly blasting one of his minions in the foot in a ...