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Earth, wind and fire
Most movies, on some level, are about reconciling the space between parents and their children. It’s the theme that runs right through the heart...
Topple the patriarchy
Sex in cinema is a complex thing. Depicting something so private, yet so routine, with taste and titillation at the same time has been...
How do you see the world?
A father is sick and the son is beckoned to his side. While the son waits for his father to die, he meets another wayward...
Twenty feet from stardom, a million miles from sanity
Like most love stories, this one begins at the movies. London, 1971: A young actor goes to see the latest release, A Clockwork Orange,...
At the movies
A man goes to the movies. The critic must be honest enough to admit he is that man. —Robert Warshow
Like a lot of you,...
The gospel according to woman
There is an old saying that you should never meet your heroes, they may disappoint you. The new Belgian comedy from writer/director Jaco Van...
Look what the cat dragged in
There never has been, and there never will be, a movie like Roar. Even the tagline is one in a million, “No animals were harmed in the making of this film. Seventy cast and crew members were.” If that doesn’t pique your interest, then you ought to have your pulse ...
Best in show
The Boulder International Film Festival is the cherry on top for a town with an already-impressive film scene. Throw in some big stars, up-and-coming filmmakers, foreign favorites and fascinating documentaries and you’ve got the perfect weekend for a cinephile. Here’...
Beyond Eurocentric and Hollywood cinema
“What I’m trying to do is theorize a way to create a brand new Black cinema,” Skinner Myers says. “Like a new Black cinematic...
‘The world’s biggest student film’
It was 1983 when British filmmaker Alex Cox turned in his first feature film to Universal Studios. That same week, Cox optioned the rights to one of his favorite science-fiction novels for a future project. The movie was Repo Man. The book was Harry Harrison’s Bill, ...
