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‘Couples Retreat’ a waste of talent, unfunny

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Director Peter Billingsley had a tough assignment: take four suburban couples and put them through a series of "relationship building" challenges that were thought-provoking, poignant, revealing and funny. In attempting to accomplish this, he makes everyone a crass ...

Send in the clowns

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Another summer is upon us, and that means it’s time for another season of silent film at Chautauqua. For those unfamiliar with the silent...

Reel to reel | Week of September 5, 2013

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20 Feet from Stardom...

‘The mystery of Buster’

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

reel to reel | Week of Oct. 27, 2011

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50/50 Though it’s a cancer film, the tender and funny 50/50 addresses its subject with a refreshing lack of melodrama. Based on the true story of Will Reiser, a comedy writer, the movie follows Adam (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), who gets diagnosed with the C-word. ...

Hocus poking

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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 ...

Make way for yesterday

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The movies started small. So small that only one person at a time could watch them. The year was 1892, and Thomas Edison and his colleague William Kennedy Laurie Dickson discovered that if you spun sequential photographs in a small box, you could create the illusion ...

Got ham?

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Editor’s note: As of press time, the connection between The Dark Knight Rises and the recent massacre that occurred at the movie theater in Aurora remains unclear...

The power of discussion

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The “road trip” might be the ultimate American movie trope — the vast expanse of the continental United States providing a vivid backdrop while the confines of a vehicle pressure-cook characters in the comedy and drama they need to discover the intricacies of ...

VHS

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Found Footage Festival, 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 5, Muenzinger Auditorium, CU Boulder Campus. 303-492- 1531...

Not genius, but still good

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The most startling shot in Paranormal Activity 3 is something even the film’s determined unbelievers would concede to be damnably effective...