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Bad advice
Featuring an all-star cast of irreproachable actors ... and also Cameron Diaz, The Counselor had Ridley Scott at the helm and an original screenplay written by Cormac McCarthy. All the ingredients in this cinematic recipe are independently delicious; so why does the ...
Reel to reel | Week of July 25, 2013
20 Feet From Stardom Director Morgan Neville shines a spotlight on the untold true story of the backup singers behind some of the greatest musical legends of the 21st century. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres American Graffiti A group of friends about to head to ...
Life during wartime
Ellis French (Jeremy Pope), a gay Black 20-something, trades the cold streets of New York City for the harsh regiment of Marine boot camp....
Sinful and sorrowful
The
Irishman begins in darkness. A small box of light at the center of
the frame opens like an iris, and we see nurses and doctors....
A revival you can’t refuse
Some movies never grow old. They exist outside of time and space, always there, always waiting for us to return. The Godfather and The Godfather: Part II are two such movies and they return to the big screen Sunday, June 22 at Century Theatre in Boulder...
The fascination of film
In a world where the Adam Sandler fiasco Jack and Jill makes $68 million at the box office, it’s easy to forget that movies are pretty much magic...
‘Leap Year’ fits romantic comedy mold
If chemistry were all, then the sparks Amy Adams and Matthew Goode set off would be enough in "Leap Year," a romantic comedy in which those sparks never quite ignite...
Savage beauty and the beasts
They should hand out oxygen tanks before each screening of Beasts of the Southern Wild because writer/director Benh Zeitlin’s debut feature film takes your breath in the very first scene and plays keep away with it for more than 90 minutes. When people kvetch about ...
Recyclists
This is not a good movie. It’s important to establish that early on so that you can understand how an appreciation of its moving parts doesn’t fully remove one central thesis: Premium Rush is crap. It may, however, be somewhat fun crap, depending on your tolerance ...
You can’t take it with you
Jack Tuller is terminal. It’s a brain tumor that’ll do it, one he’s had since the early 1990s. Back then, the doctors gave Jack...
