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Reel to reel | Week of October 11

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3,2,1…FRANKIE GO BOOM...

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...

The power of the real

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There is no shortage of ways to celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month — observed from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15 — in the Centennial...

Homeviewing: Refugee-pers Creepers

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The most satisfying response to a horror movie scare is not a jump, a shriek or a recoil. It is a verbal “Nope!” It...

Back in the saddle again

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We must never lose heart. We have to have trust until our last breath. Otherwise, what will become of us? Thanks to the pivot from...

BW BIFF Picks 2013: ‘Trash Dance’

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Texas choreographer Allison Orr does things the hard way. And as viewers of filmmaker Andrew Garrison’s Trash Dance will come to appreciate, the whole world is a better place because of her seeming lack of common sense...

Not a question of where, but why

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Watching movies in 2019 is no longer a question of where, but why. It could be everywhere: Multiplexes, art house theater, film societies, living rooms,...

Squad goals

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Both the original Star Trek and Star Trek: The Next Generation got to warm up on the small screen before being called up to...

2020 in movies

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2020 was the year I watched more but understood less. With a rotating series of crises to consider, rare were the instances where I...

Sucky socialists

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Paul Rudd stands in front of a bathroom vanity and riffs a string of vulgar, not-very-funny euphemisms for the intercourse he plans to have with Malin Akerman’s character in an outtake that’s part of the closing credits of Wanderlust. It’s a part of the process with ...

Brace for Thorgasm

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Whether or not we’ve reached the zenith of comic book movies, we have officially achieved “peak Goldblum.” Dressed as the coolest dad at the...

A matter of life and death

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Everybody clap your hands. Soul, the latest feature film from Disney/Pixar, rolls credits with a new version of the Curtis Mayfield classic, “It’s All...