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Dancing without chemistry
The country-twang remake of Footloose strives to give us a more down-home experience than the original film...
The 44th Denver Film Festival returns with in-person and at home...
What does home mean to you?
That’s the question Flee director Jonas Poher Rasmussen poses to Amin Nawabi, an Afghan refugee on the eve of marrying his...
Peter Fonda to make appearance at BIFF
Peter Fonda, social media guru Andy Carvin and software expert Blaise Agüera y Aracas are key guests at the 9th Annual Boulder International Film Festival, which kicks off its film series on Feb. 14. The festival will feature numerous acclaimed feature-length films, ...
An open letter to CU students: Celebrate Stan
Dear University of Colorado students:
If I could offer you one word of advice — no, it’s not sunscreen — it would be this: Resources....
A more engaging Thing
The slippery, effective new version of The Thing serves as a prequel to the 1982 John Carpenter film, explaining what went down, down in Antarctica, after the intergalactic thing thawed and began eviscerating humans and a husky or two...
Jerry Garcia documentary in the works after years of delays
Deadheads rejoice — a new documentary chronicling the life of the late guitar-god Jerry Garcia is in the works for an end of the year release.Filmmaker Malcolm Leo has teamed up with former Eagles manager John Hartmann to tackle the life of Grateful Dead frontman ...
Happiness for you and me
The 1998 Academy Awards Ceremony felt a little bit like a private party James Cameron threw for his monumental Titanic, which sailed away with 11 statues that evening, but that was also the night 57 million Americans met one singer/ songwriter who left almost as ...
R2D2 meets the AARP
First things first: although she’s only eight years younger than he is, nobody will accept that Susan Sarandon would want to kiss Frank Langella on his mouth parts. That premise requires a bigger suspension of disbelief than the rest of Robot & Frank, which presumes ...
John Hughes for kids
Released a year ago, the first Diary of a Wimpy Kid movie captured remarkably little of the sly charm of the Jeff Kinney books that line my son’s bookshelf. The film did, however, capture enough of the fan base to warrant a sequel. And here we are. And it’s a little ...
