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Bad cops, bad script
Everything that does and does not work in Brooklyn’s Finest arrives in Scene One. A twitchy, cashstrapped detective played by Ethan Hawke is driving around with a shifty associate played by unbilled Vincent D’Onofrio. They park by a cemetery. (Warning.) Director ...
reel to reel | Week of Oct. 6, 2011
1911 Jackie Chan’s 100th movie: Starring Jackie Chan and co-directed by the star and Zhang Li, 1911 tells the story of the founding of the Republic of China when Sun Yat-sens forces overthrew the Ming Dynasty. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society 50...
Oscar-nominated shorts
Friday, February 14, 7:30 p.m., Saturday, February 15, 7:30 p.m., Sunday, February 16, 2 p.m., 7:30 p.m.: Oscar- Nominated Documentary Short Films. Muenzinger Auditorium. 2301 Colorado Ave., Boulder, 303-492-1531...
Vacant lots
Writer/director Sofia Coppola has made a movie that says nothing about people with nothing interesting to offer who steal from famous people who do nothing to be famous. And unless you’re a talk-show conspiracy theorist, it’s kind of hard to get too worked up about ...
Assignment fulfilled
The new True Grit restores all the grit removed in the first version (the 1969 Henry Hathaway film starring John Wayne) of the 1968 Charles Portis novel. All of Portis’ sardonic wit has been retained this time, and then some. The “then some” derives from this project...
Jacko, through the eyes of his estate
How much of Michael Jackson’s This Is It can we believe...
