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High-octane hit

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Faster is a throwback to the action films of the 1970s, from the production color schemes to the film stock and camera angles utilized by cinematographer Michael Grady. If you’re not familiar with classics like Shaft, The French Connection, Dirty Harry, Enter the ...

Oscar baiting

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Please be silent behind the screen...

The power of a magic feather

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In Life, Animated — the new documentary from Academy Award-winning director Roger Ross Williams — one image in particular stands out: a toddler standing...

Kaiju goo goo

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Oscar-winning fish pornographer Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim was a just-fine endeavor hailed as near-sexually-satisfying by a vocal community blessed/cursed with low expectations. Pacific...

reel to reel | Week of Sept. 8, 2011

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30 Minutes Or Less A pizza-delivery guy (Jesse Eisenberg) is kidnapped by dim-witted criminals and forced to help them rob a bank. Rated R. At Flatiron and Century. — Rene Rodriguez Antwerp Central Station Between past and present, between dream and reality, a ...

Clips of faith

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Friday, July 11: New Belgium’s Clips of Faith Tour. 8 p.m. 29th Street Mall, 1710 29th St., Boulder...

Confusing hacktion

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Are zebras white with black stripes or black with white stripes? Is The Daily Show a news program with some comedy in it or a comedy program with some news in it? Is Blackhat a bad movie with a lot of good parts or a good movie with a lot of bad parts? The world may ...

How do you see the world?

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A father is sick and the son is beckoned to his side. While the son waits for his father to die, he meets another wayward...

Cast riveting in ‘The Road’

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The Road is a...

A feast for the eyes

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Summer is over, school is back in session and that can only mean one thing: the glorious return of the University of Colorado Boulder’s own International Film Series (IFS...

Droning on

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For one brief, shining moment, the completely unnecessary remake of Robocop suggested the possibility of non-suckage. Pat Novak (Samuel L. Jackson), a host of cable news propaganda, frothily and non-ironically...

‘Moby-Dick’ on horseback

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It should have been a classic. Major Dundee, a new kind of Western with Charlton Heston as the titular major. This was the 1960s, and...