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Film/STILL 1959
1959: fourteen years after the war ended and five years before The Beatles played The Ed Sullivan Show, the cinema started to go democratic. Cameras were smaller, weighed less and cheaper, thereby allowing independent directors to make movies they wanted to make ...
Perfect timing
Boulder’s festival of films, food, music and adventure returns with the 19th annual Boulder International Film Festival (BIFF). Screening March 2-5, across four venues,...
Men ruin everything
I don’t want to review Mad Max: Fury Road. I want to write love letters to it or draw it like one of those French girls. If I could find the right keystroke combination, this review would just be one long onomatopoetic recreation of the feral roar of approval ...
‘Serious Man’ a new Coen classic
A Serious Man is a tart, brilliantly acted fable of life's little cosmic difficulties, a Coen brothers comedy with a darker philosophical outlook than No Country for Old Men but with a script rich in verbal wit. This time it's God or chance, or fate with a grudge ...
reel to reel
21 JUMP STREET Two young police officers and ex-classmates go undercover at a local high school to investigate a dangerous drug ring. Rated R. At Century. — Los Angeles Times/MCT...
A boy’s best friend is his cow
The 1925 Buster Keaton classic Go West opens, “Some people travel through life making friends wherever they go, while others — just travel through life...
Chasing inclusion
From Aug. 10-13, the CinemaQ Film Festival — Denver’s only LGBTQ movie event — returns to the Sie Film Center for four days of...
An animated yawn
Earlier this year Despicable Me proved it: A story about a hapless villain, humanized, is good for a few laughs and a half-billion dollars worldwide. That figure would very likely be A-OK with the makers of the new DreamWorks animated feature Megamind, also about a ...
Movie for schmucks
Dinner for Schmucks is a remake for schlemiels, or at least easy marks when it comes to formulaic Hollywood comedy. But the film’s peculiar sluggishness and nagging hypocrisy probably won’t get in the way of its popularity. It has a lot of funny people going for ...
Mommy issues
A mother is on trial for murdering her child. We know how, but not why. Nor does the mother. She does not deny the...
Right story, wrong script
Red Tails squanders a great subject, reducing the real-life struggles and fierce heroics of the Tuskegee Airmen to rickety cliché. Some of the action is fun. But if something about that statement doesn’t sound right, well, there’s your chief problem with Red Tails. ...
