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‘The mystery of Buster’

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Dana Stevens on Buster Keaton and her new book, ‘Camera Man’ 

Home viewing: Satire streams

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A lecture may get your point across, but a story illustrates it better. And if you can smuggle in a little humor, it’s a...

Strangled love

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Set in Scranton, Pa., and Brooklyn, N.Y., Blue Valentine depicts a working class marriage hanging by threads of resentment, contempt and love, a very tricky braid to unravel. At its best, the drama captures little bits and pieces of a relationship, the telltale signs...

For now we see through a glass, darkly

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When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became...

‘From Paris With Love’ tries too hard

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John Travolta shaved his head, dyed his goatee and...

Son shines

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Like death, taxes and CBS creating another spectacularly unfunny comedy, reboots are an inevitable part of life now. To resist them isn’t merely tilting at windmills, it’s tilting at windmills you then go ahead and buy anyway. Instead, let’s just get writer/director ...

Oh well


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With the Trump administration playing a nonstop game of “hide and go seek your civil rights,” scary movies have to try harder to achieve...

Grow where you’re planted

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Prolific playwright Steven Dietz has many connections with Colorado. The most obvious is that he was born and raised in southwest Denver, attended John...

Fostering understanding

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The objective of the Boulder Jewish Film Festival is clear to its founding director, Kathryn Bernheimer: “To educate, to foster an appreciation, to create...

Biff 2012 | Not your average stoner movie

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Graduating college can be rough. Some find it hard to break into the real world and instead find themselves sleeping in their parent’s basement. Jeff, Who Lives at Home, showing at the Boulder International Film Festival this week, follows Jeff (Jason Segel) as he ...

The dreaded ’20’

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It´s a close call, given the lousiness and the scolding tone of much of her material, but Anna Faris survives What’s Your Number? with eccentric comic charm intact. Dumb film; smart comedienne...

Many unhappy returns

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The hackneyed, half-assed backstory for the lead character in Happy Death Day involves the tragic loss of her mother, which doesn’t actually feel sad...