Crazy Cruise

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Reel to reel | Week of Feb. 13

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There are some months when life in Colorado is an embarrassment of riches. April is one such month. And those craving moving images and...

Sorry, Malaysian tourism industry!

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No Escape feels like it was written by somebody who violently hates the entire Asian continent. Culled from every xenophobic stereotype, down to the eating of dogs, the film plays like a two-hour anti-tourism ad: “Malaysia, You’ll Probably Die Here.” Setting aside ...

What happens when a son sets out to profile his father?

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The documentary film Old Man is as much a story of a troubled, perhaps marginally dysfunctional family as it is the story of a troubled record store — and, in many ways, a dysfunctional town. The portrait of Boulder is not graceful. It’s a critique of the town’s ...

Crank it up

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There are three perfect scenes in Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials. Not “good” scenes. Not “great” scenes. Three perfect scenes. Now, as a whole, The Scorch Trials is not a perfect movie. Nor is it a great one. But it is very good, and most of that has to do with ...

Like a Joss

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This was going to be a rabid, frothing defense of the superhero genre, complete with impassioned pleas that appealed to cinematic intellectuals who are apt to dismiss such films. But Tom Hiddleston, who ironically plays the evil Loki in The Avengers, got there first...

Saving Mr. Banks is a bankrupt effort

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‘Saving Mr. Banks’ teaches a bad lesson...

Got ham?

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Editor’s note: As of press time, the connection between The Dark Knight Rises and the recent massacre that occurred at the movie theater in Aurora remains unclear...

Seduced by Paris

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I feel like the Parisians kind of get me,” says Gil Pender in Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris, an early clue to this character’s cluelessness...

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KID BROTHER (1927...

The movie year in review

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Paul Newman died, James Cameron came out of retirement and Quentin Tarantino...

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MANHATTAN SHORT FILM FESTIVAL...

Mental illness explored

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Something really bad is coming, an impending apocalypse, and only Curtis (Michael Shannon) can see it. His mom was institutionalized with paranoid schizophrenia when he was 10, however, so are his dreams prophetic or is he starting to lose it? This is the plot of ...