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A cautionary tale about hate
Trying to keep up with GOP presidential candidate Donald J. Trump’s hate speech isn’t easy — it’s coming in hot and heavy these days...
‘The human at the center of it’
“I don’t think we see the human at the center of it,” Jamie Boyle says, “what their life looks like now, how they fell...
Ride fast, die young
All it took was Lance Armstrong and a very successful “Bike to Work” campaign and cycling became more popular than ever. Especially in Boulder where the cycling community is positioned to overthrow every last automobile on Broadway. On Sunday, August 24, Stage 7 of ...
Why teenagers shouldn’t get superpowers
Teenagers acquire superpowers and, being teenagers, videotape themselves as they learn what they can do in Chronicle, an entertaining comic book movie without the comic book...
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. ...
What you make of it
The first thing you should know about the International Film Series (IFS) is that, when you go, you will watch your movie in peace....
Reel to reel | Week of April 12, 2012
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, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/ MCT AMERICAN REUNION A decade after their teen adventures ...
‘Moby-Dick’ on horseback
It should have been a classic. Major Dundee, a new kind of Western with Charlton Heston as the titular major. This was the 1960s, and...
The old west refined
At this point, the folks at Rockstar Games can do no wrong. Red Dead Redemption is...
Great expectations
In 1850, Charles Dickens published his eighth novel, an autobiography of sorts, and his proclaimed favorite: The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of...
Hocus poking
If you were to divide your ticket price by the number of semi-nude male pelvic thrusts in the faces of women spectators, each hump costs you less than a penny. At times during Magic Mike XXL, I felt like I needed a “horny translator.” That is to say, when Channing ...
