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Oui, Oui!

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Other than offering a great celebutant joke based on its titular similarity to an infamous sex tape, 2 Days in Paris was stunningly forgettable and a remarkably unlikely target for a sequel. This is to say, there’s no good reason why 2 Days in New York even exists, ...

‘Fury’ is missing fast

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Inside of writer/director David Fury is “we will hold this line” war movie populated with complex characters and surprisingly good performances. Problem is, it was slipped into the carcass vAC of a dirty, confused, overly serious, inconsistently grotesque snoozer in...

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 ...

Faithfully following the formula

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From King Lear to Psycho, some of the great popular art has confronted human evil and depravity with an eye as unblinking as Marion Crane’s after a visit from Mrs. Bates. By transcending boundaries of disreputable genres built on bloodlust, our shrewdest artists have...

Recyclists

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This is not a good movie. It’s important to establish that early on so that you can understand how an appreciation of its moving parts doesn’t fully remove one central thesis: Premium Rush is crap. It may, however, be somewhat fun crap, depending on your tolerance ...

Local Theater Company’s ‘Discount Ghost Stories: Colorado’

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Whether they’re tossed aside carelessly or discarded maliciously, some pieces of history just get lost.  Like the story of Florence Molloy and Mabel MacLeay, who...

X-treme downsizing!

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Honestly, who hasn’t cubicle daydreamed about which office supplies would make the best weapons, just in case Jason from accounting ever decides to take...

Beasts of burden

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The Jungle Book is director Jon Favreau’s “live-action” — if you count an entirely CGI environment with almost entirely CGI characters to be “live-action”...

Losers, yet fun

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Is there something written that good, enjoyable films have to make sense, be internally consistent and not have dumb continuity gaffes? I hope not, because that perfectly describes my reaction to The Losers, yet another Hollywood film based on a graphic novel. This...

Karate chop to the throat

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The feverish mixed martial arts infomercial Warrior opens up so many cans of emotional whup-ass that after a while you think: Enough! It’s whupped! It’s whupped! And yet the tears will flow by the gallon...

‘Suicide Squad’ is messy… but fun


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Raise a glass: The magic of movie making is dead. We don’t just know, “how the sausage is made.” No, no, no. Now we press...

Waltzing with the enemy

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Since 1994, Pierre Dulaine, subject of the 2013 documentary Dancing in Jaffa, has run a program called Dancing Classrooms, which teaches fifth graders the fundamentals of ballroom dance. The program teaches more than just footwork, it teaches the students elegance, ...