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The eternal charm of the go-getter: Part one

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Known as “the third genius,” Harold Lloyd did not have the same background in vaudeville as Charlie Chaplin or Buster Keaton; yet, he ended...

How to live a good life

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Ask Boulder filmmaker Pamela Tanner Boll when she got the idea for her latest documentary, A Small Good Thing, and she’ll go back a lot further than you might expect: “From as long as I can remember, even as a little girl, I was always asking people, ‘What is ...

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It’s the third Thursday in March, and under normal circumstances, we’d be steeped in March Madness right now. You’re probably reading this at home. And not because you...

Peter Jackson’s latest: ‘The Lovely Bones’

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It won't surprise you that to New Zealand filmmaker Peter Jackson, heaven, or at least a lovely version of purgatory, looks an awful lot like the forests and valleys of New Zealand...

reel to reel | Week of August 25, 2011

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30 Minutes Or Less...

Training in 3-D

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How to Train Your Dragon, the latest film from Dreamworks Animation, tells the story of Hiccup ( Jay Baruchel), a young Viking and the only son of village chief, blacksmith and single dad Stoick The Vast (Gerard Butler). Hiccup is attracted to Astrid (America ...

Art reflecting Ebert

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The Chicago Sun-Times obituary by Neil Steinberg couldn’t have said it better: “Roger Ebert loved movies.” Considering that he reviewed thousands upon thousands of them, it was a good thing. From 1967 to his death in 2013, Ebert was the film critic for the Chicago ...

Sam and Max deliver the laughs again

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 It was a boring weekday night when I stumbled across what I thought was a relic from my youth: a Sam and Max video game, fully restored and buyable from the Playstation Network store. But I was wrong. Delightfully wrong. The game I had found was Sam & Max: The Devil...

’Cause it’s Oscar—Oscar, Oscar!

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Breaking down the 94th Academy Award nominations

It whistleblows


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There’s a good movie to be made about the controversial whistleblowing actions of Edward Snowden. It’s a documentary called Citizenfour, and you should really...

Check out some hot briefs

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Outside of the unspeakable fame and groupies, the best part of being a movie critic is getting a peek at stuff you may otherwise never see. One of my favorite annual traditions is checking out what the Academy felt were little films worthy of a little guy made of ...