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Reel to reel | Week of December 27, 2012

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ANNA KARENINA...

Back in the saddle again

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We must never lose heart. We have to have trust until our last breath. Otherwise, what will become of us? Thanks to the pivot from...

Rednecks and white lightning

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Scuff him, scrape him, buff him up; nobody is going to buy Shia LaBeouf as a country boy. He has a face built for Instagram and his posture is that of a narcissist demanding bottle service at a trendy club. Even though he plays the least burly of the Bondurant boys, ...

Taken

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Hendrik Coetzee was not a man easily dominated. After he led the first expedition from the source of the Nile in Uganda to the Mediterranean — a 4,100mile trip he undertook in 2004 to show the humanitarian situation in that part of the world — some people griped that...

We was smart once

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Modern Americans re-elected a man who plunged the country into two wars, tortured people and destroyed our economy, all because George W. Bush was the kind of guy you’d “like to have a beer with.” But for a brief moment in 1972, America rooted for the smart guy. To ...

The center will not hold

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When Star Wars debuted in 1977, it was an immediate revolution of cinema and culture. Audiences voted with their wallets: This is how we want our...

Cage shines as corrupt New Orleans cop

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"Anything’s possible in this storm!” says the man with the badge in Werner Herzog’s delirious Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, a true feat of daring and one of the craziest films of the year. It’s a very loose remake of 1992’s Bad Lieutenant, in which ...

BIFF 2013: The man behind the Man in Black

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In 2005, Jonathan Holiff was living in Los Angeles, working hard at his agency, The Hollywood-Madison Group. He hooked up celebrities with Fortune 500 companies for product endorsements; one of his biggest successes was getting Jessica Simpson together with Chicken ...

Reel to Reel | Week of June 27, 2013

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20 Feet From Stardom...

Meet Dalton Trumbo

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If you’ve spent any time on CU’s campus, you probably noticed the courtyard fountain next to the UMC — the kind where couples take their engagement photos and children play on hot summer days. You might’ve even noticed the small plaque on the south pillar, dedicating...

Dumb wolf in smart sheep’s clothes

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To review The Wolf of Wall Street at this stage of the game is to enter into a narrative feud with able critical champions on both sides...