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A live-action Looney Tunes cartoon
Wes Anderson’s cinematic style did not appear fully formed. It took a few movies over five years before Anderson locked in on formal compositions,...
Smurfed up
The good news about the big-screen 3-D version of The Smurfs is that it’s not the insipid — and some say “socialist” — Smurfs you remember from 1980s TV...
From a second-rate Bette Davis to a first-rate auteur
They say the future of film is female. It is. But so is the past. Maybe
that’s not evident upon first glance — certainly not...
One for the fan boys
Primarily for dues-paying “X-Men” club members in good standing, rather than anyone wandering by a multiplex wondering if the prequel stands on its own, X-Men: First Class settles for moderately engrossing second-class mutant super-heroism. Plus it includes January...
Who needs a swan song?
Golden Era Hollywood screenwriter Frank S. Nugent once described story as a disturbance of the status quo: “Something happens to upset it; the disturbance...
Democracy in the dark
One of the great pleasures of living in Boulder is once again upon us with the 69th iteration of the Conference on World Affairs...
Winter camp
Your tolerance for writer/ director Gregg Araki’s White Bird in a Blizzard hinges on your appreciation (or lack thereof ) for campy content. If you were weaned on John Waters, you’ll gobble up every cheese-tastic second, from a horny housewife lusting towards her ...
We are family
If necessity is the mother of invention, then Inez de la Paz needs to invent a new life for herself and her little boy....
Matters of life and death
The first annual Life and Death Matters International Multimedia Festival — better known as LADmatters — promises to be a thought-provoking, engaging event with plenty to prick the senses. Running Sept. 1 to Sept. 4 at various venues in Boulder, the event ...
