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Bag it up

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A really good documentary isn’t about whatever it looks like it’s about. It’s about people.I don’t mean nature docs, which are actually about nature. I mean films like Ready, Set, Bag!, an independent documentary that follows eight competitors in the National Grocers...

‘How am I gonna deal with all this?’

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Timeless problems timely in ‘Olga’; plus, the Boulder Environmental/Nature/Outdoors Film Festival is back in-perso

Love in the time of communism

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Well, if you want to sing out, sing out And if you want to be free, be free. ’Cause there’s a million things to be You know...

Us

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Like most nightmares, they appeared at night. Clad in red jumpsuits and leather driving gloves, wielding oversized golden shears. Who are they? They’re us; doppelgangers from...

Better than nothing

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Set in Manhattan, The Switch is all over the place. But around the halfway point it starts getting interesting and the people who put it together are at least working in a realm of reasonable intelligence and wit and respect for the audience. I wish it were great, ...

Define ‘run’

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At this point, there is just one Liam Neeson movie: Taken a Non-Stop Run All Night to Walk Among the Tombstones 3. Neeson isn’t in the midst of some Nicolas Cage supernova, in which an actor’s need to perpetually work and “get dat paper” creates an acting black hole ...

A nation of two and L.A. on my mind

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Nothing else matters when you’re in love. People come and go, jobs come and go, the world turns, but none of that sticks. Not...

That’s enough, James Franco

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At one point, our collective return to Oz (not be confused with Return to Oz, sorry Faruza) was going to see director Sam Raimi deploy Robert Downey Jr. as his titular wizard. The short list after Downey split must have consisted of just two names: James Franco and “...

War, hot and cold, in ‘Underground’

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Not every movie survives the baptism of time. Even award winners and those end-of-the-year Top Ten movies become buried under years of obsolescence. Which...

Mother is the first other

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Rashaan Salaam and Kordell Stewart!” Sarah Adina Smith cheers with delight, recalling her high school years as a University of Colorado Boulder Buffs fan...

The cinematic sampler

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As far as cinema is concerned, 2021 opened not with a bang but with cautious optimism. For starters, moviegoing has returned with AMC, Cinemark...

Confronting a selfish world with ‘Loveless’

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You can’t live your life in lovelessness,” the ex-wife tells her new boyfriend. We agree, that’s certainly true. But we also know there is...