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Life during wartime

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Ellis French (Jeremy Pope), a gay Black 20-something, trades the cold streets of New York City for the harsh regiment of Marine boot camp....

The Disney ouroboros

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It all started in Kansas City with a young dreamer named Walt Disney. Alice’s Wonderland wasn’t his first creation, but it was significant. The...

Not enough chills from ‘The Wolfman’

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Benicio and Joe put the "Goth" back in Gothic with...

Jedi mind tricks from ‘The Men Who Stare At Goats’

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"Is this really based on facts?” a fellow critic asked the studio rep at the screening of The Men Who Stare At Goats. “Does it matter?” I responded, and I was right, it doesn’t. Whether it’s factual or just a riff on the craziness of modern military and contemporary ...

Laughs & Gasps: The Cinema of Brian Trenchard-Smith

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Any filmmaker’s visit to CU-Boulder’s International Film Series is cause for celebration, but when the filmmaker in question is writer, director, actor, occasional stuntman,...

Art for art’s sake

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manifesto, noun: a written statement declaring publicly the intentions, motives, or views of its issuer What we need is works of art that are strong,...

The high cost of being on top

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Tall and lean, Jimmy Ringo’s come to town. His pants are ill-fitting and his jacket is a little shabby. His mustache is dumpy and...

Home Viewing: Kelly Sears on ‘Born in Flames’

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It’s been 10 years since the Social-Democratic War of Liberation: “The most peaceful revolution the world has known.” So opens director Lizzie Borden’s incendiary 1983...

A woman’s place in cinema

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There is nothing connected with the staging of a motion picture that a woman cannot do as easily as a man, and there is no...

All our yesterdays: ‘45 Years’ haunted by the past

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Marriage: two people come together, make a proclamation of lifelong devotion and fidelity and try their damnedest to carry it out. For some, it...

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...

Can movies solve our problems?

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On Jan. 1, 2020, Wuhan, China, welcomed a new year and a new decade. That same day, Chinese state media announced that eight individuals...