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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...
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...
We found love in a hopeless place
Hollywood must have a rooting interest in marriage. Why else would so many rom-coms revolve around weddings and meeting that perfect match? They must...
History starts here
When Martin Scorsese sat down with friend and classmate Mardik Martin to pen Season of the Witch — later rechristened Mean Streets — he...
‘The Princess and the Frog’ sticks to Disney template
As you might guess by the title, "The Princess and the...
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....
Way down Texas way
It’s 1950, and John Ford wants to make a movie: The Quiet Man, from a story by Maurice Walsh, about a retired boxer who...
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,...
Maid in Mexico
Luxury hotels are bizarre, magical places. They are like hermetically sealed chambers where every possible amenity has been accounted for: Food, drink, entertainment, even...
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...
The art of the real
Screening Aug. 4-10, the Mimesis Documentary Festival (MDF) takes over the Dairy Arts Center’s cinemas for a simultaneous return and debut. A return as...
