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The movie year in review
Paul Newman died, James Cameron came out of retirement and Quentin Tarantino...
Locally-sourced cinema
Culture is homegrown in Boulder County — from breweries to art. In her latest documentary, Colorado Hopped — Bine to Brew, Longmont filmmaker Barbara Hau paired the two...
reel to reel | Week of Dec. 8, 2011
Arthur Christmas See full review Page 37. Rated PG. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. Crazy Wisdom: The Life and Times of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche Raised and trained in the rigorous Tibetan monastic tradition, Trungpa came to the West and shattered ...
The waiting is the hardest part
My grandmother once told me the greatest pain ever felt was felt by a parent burying her own child. Nothing could feel more unnatural....
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, ...
‘Living Dead Girl’
She was born Norma Jean Baker in 1926, but she died Marilyn Monroe in 1962. Between those two dates and names lived one of...
How we got here
What good does it, writing about classic films?
If it’s covering an undiscovered gem or a movie never properly released, that’s one thing. But to...
Overdue disaster
Writer-director Todd Phillips understands comedy and comedic structure. He’s no stranger to the possibilities of the cinematic road trip...
Stories we tell
You know something’s amiss from the start. There’s something benign about the secondary school classroom setting, something pedestrian about the participants that makes your...
Sexually transmitted ignorance
Writer/director David Robert Mitchell’s It Follows is an alarmingly well-reviewed throwback horror movie that follows Jay Height (Maika Monroe), whose vagina gets cursed by Satan after she does it with her boyfriend. He straps her to a chair and explains she’s got ...
















