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The Starz Denver Film Festival presents high-brow cinema

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November is already upon us, so it’s time to put away the Halloween gear, recover from the candy hangover, and get the popcorn ready. A local cinematic holiday is just around the corner, as this month marks the 32nd year of the Starz Denver Film Festival (SDFF), ...

Rose-tinted world

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At the end of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, house-servantturned-space-commander Riff Raff threatens the sequinned-and-fishnetted Dr. Frank-N-Furter with a laser trident and yells, “Say goodbye to all of this, and hello to oblivion...

Tennis, anyone?

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Politics, cinema and literature can lie, not sport. —Jean-Luc Godard When one considers the history and scope of cinema, rarely do “how to” instruction videos...

To infinity, and beyond

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“Why am I alive?” she asks. “I have no idea,” he replies with a kind smile. Those are the final words of Toy Story 4, Disney/Pixar’s...

‘The Messenger’ digs into a different side of the Army

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America is an interesting country. Full of contradictions, hopes, failures and, every now and then, surprises. The nation is complex, to say the very least. Perhaps one of the clearest representations of these complexities is the war in Iraq...

Power play

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Kalia Motley grew up in a world of nostalgia. Her mom was a connoisseur of vintage clothing and her dad a jazz musician. Through...

‘Edge of Darkness’ needs more Gibson

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Moviegoers can rest easy. Mel Gibson is back in the business of starring in violent, paranoid thrillers. Back in the business of starring in movies — period...

The core of Apple’s man

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Apparently, writer Aaron Sorkin has decided that his “thing” is making fascinating films out of seemingly unfilmable, boring-ass ideas. I don’t have an iPhone. I don’t like Apple. I don’t like Steve Jobs. I don’t care about Steve Jobs. I didn’t care to ever see a ...

Missed payoff

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Maybe in a few years, the high-flying machinations of notorious Washington puppet-master Jack Abramoff and Michael Scanlon, his partner in crime, will be funny. But even with Kevin Spacey trying his carnival barker hardest in Casino Jack, it still feels too painfully...

Here’s Butters: ‘South Park’ animator to speak in Boulder

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When Eric Stough was studying film at the University of Colorado Boulder, he wanted to get a job working on the big-budget, high-production value cartoons made by The Walt Disney Co. Then South Park happened...

Solid cast helps ‘2012’ overcome flaws

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Nothing like a dandy evening's apocalypse to take the edge...

Wartcrap


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To me, one scene above all other defines Warcraft, a movie as breathtakingly nonsensical as it is irresponsibly chaotic. A young, generic hero who...