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Brutality depicted

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New rule: You can watch Django Unchained as many times as you want, but you have to watch 12 Years a Slave at least once first...

‘This isn’t unique to Boulder’

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When Katrina Miller was a journalism student at CU Boulder some 20 years ago, the student body president—Mebraht Gebre-Michael, also a Black woman—received an...

Not a good look

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"More plot!” demanded not one single fan of the original Zoolander. So, of course, writers Justin Theroux, Ben Stiller, Nicholas Stoller and John Hamburg...

Are you awake?

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The folks at Microsoft announced Alan Wake back in 2005, hyping how the game would change the face of gaming. Wish they let us know we would have to wait five years for the game, during which Gears of War, Grand Theft Auto IV and Modern Warfare have already changed ...

‘Gentlemen Broncos’ tedious, unfocused

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Once upon a time there was a weird little thrift-shop comedy...

Corruption of small-town innocence

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They were staples of popular literature, Broadway and the movies long before the movies could talk: comic yarns in which small-town naifs pack their bags and hit the big city, where they learn about life and love and what they’ve been missing...

Home viewing: Existential cinema

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Comfort watching comes in all shapes in sizes. Sometimes it’s a chubby little cubby all stuffed with fluff. Other times it’s Gene Kelly dancing...

‘The Hateful Eight’ is pointless, stupid garbage

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Say this much for writer/director/foot fetishist/N-word-addict Quentin Tarantino when he finally made his first bad movie: he made one of the worst films ever....

Baldwin blues

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“The story of the Negro in America is the story of America. It is not a pretty story.” —James Baldwin By the time James Baldwin...

Earth, wind and fire

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Most movies, on some level, are about reconciling the space between parents and their children. It’s the theme that runs right through the heart...

‘Arthur’ a tipsy remake

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From one perspective, the well-lubricated yet stiff-jointed 1981 comedy Arthur, the one about the millionaire Manhattan drunkard played by Dudley Moore, was ripe for a remake. It scored a huge popular success early in the Reagan era, when unexamined wealth was king. ...