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Life during wartime
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
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...
Jedi mind tricks from ‘The Men Who Stare At Goats’
"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
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
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
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’
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
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
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
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?
On Jan. 1, 2020, Wuhan, China, welcomed a new year and a new decade. That same day, Chinese state media announced that eight individuals...