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Hairy Plotter
Here, in Trump’s America, the question is no longer “Why do bad things happen to good people?” but “Why do good people do bad,...
Diving into a sticky situation
Conflict is the heart of cinema. Conflict drives the plot and draws the audience and practically every movie revolves around it. Yet, only a select few have the audacity to dive into what fuels that conflict and, to borrow a line from The Rules of the Game, ...
Reel to reel | Week of November 21, 2013
About Time A father explains to his son that all men in the family can time-travel. So the son goes back in time to find a girlfriend, which turns out to be harder than he thought. Rated R. At Century and Colony Square. AKA Doc Pomus Paralyzed with polio as a ...
Daguerreotypes
For 50 years, Agnès Varda lived on Paris’ Rue Daguerre, a quiet street of merchants not far from Montparnasse. She saw the men and...
Baldwin blues
“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...
BIFF: I Am Divine
The filmmaker John Waters and his muse, the larger-than-life drag queen Divine, are responsible for some of the most bizarre and shocking films of the ’70s. Divine’s turns in Waters’ movies propelled her into a star of the era’s mostly underground gay subculture, ...
Mechanical failure
The Mechanic is Arthur Bishop (Jason Statham), a crack assassin who can kill his targets without leaving a trace, and even — as we learn later — implicate third parties in the crime. Impressive. Except as we watch Bishop blunder his way through target after target, ...
Don’t they know it’s the end of the world?
Outside Sweden’s X-Royal museum of modern and contemporary art, a worker replaces the bricks in the cobblestone courtyard just so and lies down a...
It’s all over now, baby blue
Tall, skinny, blond and lonely, Connie wants to meet someone and go somewhere. Where really doesn’t matter, and who she doesn’t know yet —...
In lieu of a theatrical experience
In compliance with the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Colorado Department of Public
Health and Environment and Gov. Jared Polis’ decree, movie theaters are
shuttered...
Nostalgic puppets to the rescue
A frisky new film showcasing some old pals made out of felt, charm and some kind of genius, the Disney release The Muppets overcomes a jaded streak reflecting its makers’ nervousness about selling Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear and the gang to an audience ...
‘Imaginarium’ a disaster, incomprehensible
It should have been the must-see movie of the Christmas season, directed and co-written by the critically acclaimed Terry Gilliam (Brazil, 12 Monkeys) and featuring the marquee cast of Johnny Depp, Jude Law, Colin Farrell and, in his final role, Heath Ledger...


















