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‘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 moment when everything changed

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Traditions may come in all shapes and sizes, but the rigid ones always seem to be the one’s that last. On the island of...

VHS

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

The eternal charm of the go-getter: Part one

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Known as “the third genius,” Harold Lloyd did not have the same background in vaudeville as Charlie Chaplin or Buster Keaton; yet, he ended...

How to make friends

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A cross far too many stretches of our movie-going lives, we see movie after movie without seeing one that really moves. At once stealthy and breathlessly paced, The Social Network scoots at a fabulous clip, depicting how its version of Facebook founder Mark ...

Enjoy the silence

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This Friday, Marvel Studios releases Avengers: Infinity Wars, a massive movie that will, reportedly, tie-up 10 years and 18 installments worth of narrative threads...

Reel to reel | Week of September 20, 2012

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2 DAYS IN NEW YORK...

A jumbled mess

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As a family demographic product, Rango has a million selling points, among them an unusually strong voice cast headed by Johnny Depp in tremulous-aesthete mode, a popular live-action director making his feature animation debut, and a twist on a genre temporarily back...

American boy

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Soft-spoken and even, Charles Bukowski sounds nothing like his face looks. Or like his prose reads. In his introduction to the 1979 edition of...

Home viewing: ‘Pierrot le Fou’

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It’s the story of boy meets girl, but it’s all mixed up. He’s Ferdinand (Jean-Paul Belmondo), a married man with kids. She is Marianne...

A little film about lovely people

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On Dec. 1, TCM’s 14-week series Women Make Film comes to a close with movies on death, endings and a little song and dance....

Ben Gibbard and Jay Farrar channel Jack Kerouac’s thesis

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I remember my first experience with Jack Kerouac. I was on a classic literature binge; the more risqué, the better. I was in the midst of reading everything I could afford with my mangled selection of bills and picked up a copy of On the Road. All I knew about the ...