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Stuck in the middle with you
Professor Paul Hunham (Paul Giamatti) loves history. Not just any old history but antiquity: Greeks, Romans, Sumerians — you name ’em, Paul knows all...
‘Forgotten Jewels’ adds to the history books
Everyone has a story to tell, but stories are fragile and can easily be forgotten. They must be cared for and saved for future...
That’s a wrap
The 45th Denver Film Festival concludes this weekend with a full slate of features and shorts, documentaries and narratives, and even a party or...
BIFF: The Human Experiment
Every single one of us is being transformed daily into a walking cocktail of chemicals...
Powerful pandemic picture
One of the most powerful — and frightening — film themes is global pandemics. Diseases already seem to spread without us fully understanding or being able to control them, and rapidly evolve to become resistant to our defenses. It's not much of a leap to see a very ...
Home viewing: ‘Zero Motivation’ and ‘Losing Ground’
On Tuesday, Sept. 15, TCM’s 14-week series, Women Make Film, continues with a line-up of seven films and a thematic focus on conversation, framing...
Bergman at 100
“ilm is the great adventure — the costly, exacting mistress.” —Ingmar Bergman
Ingmar Bergman’s legacy in the annals of cinematic history is secure. With over...
Look what the cat dragged in
There never has been, and there never will be, a movie like Roar. Even the tagline is one in a million, “No animals were harmed in the making of this film. Seventy cast and crew members were.” If that doesn’t pique your interest, then you ought to have your pulse ...
8-bit-o’-honey
For a generation weaned on more Mario than Mother Goose, Wreck-It Ralph has been a long time coming. An 8-bit fairy tale with a burly bruiser in the role of the misunderstood princess, it skews a tad more prepubescent than Pixar but shares similar DNA. Writers ...
Flaccid phallic fantasy
As is the case with every rabid fanbase to which I do not belong, the cult of Stephen King is scary. And not, like,...
