Heaven is overrated

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An era on screen

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The geek shall inherit the Earth

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Geeks are not found; they are made. This is the lesson Stanton Carlisle (Bradley Cooper), a drifter in 1940s America, learns first hand at...

Gestating the obvious

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Writer/director Darren Aronofsky’s mother! is a dense, gorgeously made, challenging, total piece of shit. It is every bit the treatise on feminism and modern...

It’s like ‘Cheers’ but with movies

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In the past decade, Video Station has saved my ass on many occasions. As a burgeoning film studies major at the University of Colorado...

Race to mediocrity

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There is no suspense in Secretariat...

‘Youth in Revolt’ part inspired, part irresponsible

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"Punk" and "rebel" don't belong in the same sentence with "Michael Cera." But somehow, they connect in the few-holds-barred teen comedy "Youth in Revolt...

The hidden sounds of Alabama

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The section of the Tennessee River that forms the northern border of Muscle Shoals, Ala., didn’t always go by that name. Early Native Americans called it “The Singing River” and believed a river princess sang its soft melody...

Play this movie loud

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Criterion releases 'The Last Waltz' on 4K UHD/Blu-ray

Cross-cultural animation

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Five years ago, the Bristol, England-based Aardman animation folks — who created the stop-motion legends Wallace and Gromit and Shaun the Sheep and therefore are eligible for sainthood — made the digitally animated British/American co-production Flushed Away. Jam-...

The power of the real

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There is no shortage of ways to celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month — observed from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15 — in the Centennial...

Unlucky harms

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Americans can barely be bothered to care about civil unrest and violence currently unfolding on their own soil, let alone on another continent… let alone a conflict that has since resolved years ago. Thus, even though the lasting peace that was brokered between ...

Reel to reel | Week of April 12, 2012

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21 JUMP STREET Two young police officers and ex-classmates go undercover at a local high school to investigate a dangerous drug ring. Rated R. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/ MCT AMERICAN REUNION A decade after their teen adventures ...

Take a pass on ‘The Box’

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The object that gives this movie its title looks intriguing...