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Three came back
Hollywood Producer Samuel Goldwyn said it straight: “I don’t care if the film doesn’t make a nickel. I just want every man, woman and child in America to see it...
Robert Pattinson plays Jacob
Like The Notebook, but with an elephant, the unexpectedly good film version of Water for Elephants elevates pure corn to a completely satisfying realm of romantic melodrama. This adaptation of the Sara Gruen bestseller, set in a storybook edition of Depression-era ...
Reel to reel | Week of July 4, 2013
The BolderLife Festival films are showing this week at the SIE Film Center. For a full listing of the films go to denverfilm.org...
See you on the other side
You don’t know it at first, but this is purgatory. Well, a way station might be a better description. Regardless, all the clients who...
Confronting a selfish world with ‘Loveless’
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...
Seduced by Paris
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...
Training in 3-D
How to Train Your Dragon, the latest film from Dreamworks Animation, tells the story of Hiccup ( Jay Baruchel), a young Viking and the only son of village chief, blacksmith and single dad Stoick The Vast (Gerard Butler). Hiccup is attracted to Astrid (America ...
2012, will you marry me?
I want the 2012 year-in-film to have my babies. Heck, I’ll have its babies; it has been so durn good I’d totally go seahorse for it. Before I reduce a year that renewed my cinematic soul to a series of arbitrary numbers and rankings, a quick caveat: Because ...
Vague ones
I spent most of the beginning of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story trying to decide if Forest Whitaker’s character was named Saul, Sol,...
