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Little miracle
The child has no parents, no siblings, no relatives to speak of. He’s 11 years old, and what happened before the movie starts is...
Review: ‘Lone Ranger’ is Kemosloppy
Good news, Washington Redskins! For one glorious weekend in the summer of 2013, your unapologetically racist franchise mascot is not the most grotesque pop culture representation of Native Americans! One can only imagine owner Dan Snyder pounding copious shots of “...
Grown up but not good
Grown Ups is a sure thing — a film you think you’ve seen before, and probably saw somewhere a second time, so why not another? Actors, particularly stage actors in longrunning plays, strive for “the illusion of the first time.” High-concept comedies like Grown Ups ...
‘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...
Me without you
Ash is Purest White is a gangster movie. Well, sort of. Sure, the movie opens with a room full of low-level gangsters gambling, but...
He turned the engine, but the engine didn’t turn
Lanky, hulking and almost always stooped, Scott Carlin (Pete Davidson) is 24 years old, jobless, directionless, and living in the same Staten Island home...
Clips of faith
Friday, July 11: New Belgium’s Clips of Faith Tour. 8 p.m. 29th Street Mall, 1710 29th St., Boulder...
Too disappointing
As if by deliberate and vaguely sadistic design, Hoodwinked Too! Hood Vs. Evil leeches the fun clean out of the first Hoodwinked (2005). Six years between films is a long time, and here, when Kirk the Woodsman shows up and someone says something like “Hey! It’s Kirk ...
Laugh is a battlefield
It’s said the formula for comedy is tragedy plus time. But sometimes, when the tragedy is big enough, time moves too slowly and comedy must be found sooner...
The geek shall inherit the Earth
Geeks are not found; they are made. This is the lesson Stanton Carlisle (Bradley Cooper), a drifter in 1940s America, learns first hand at...
Home viewing: ‘The Lady Eve’
Let us be crooked but never common,” Colonel Harrington urges his daughter, Jean. He’s played by Charles Coburn, grand in every meaning of the...

















