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Flatline

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Skyline is a mediocre film with fundamental flaws, a cast of B-list actors playing to stereotypes and a startlingly unsatisfying and bizarre ending. Still, after classic sci-fi films like War of the Worlds posit aliens that can be defeated by the common cold or ...

Behold the new flesh

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David Cronenberg is at it again in "Crimes of the Future"

Reel to reel | Week of July 4, 2013

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The BolderLife Festival films are showing this week at the SIE Film Center. For a full listing of the films go to denverfilm.org...

Beyond notorious

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RBG, the latest documentary from Julie Cohen and Betsy West, opens with images of Washington D.C. accompanied by sound bites from conservative talk radio...

2016 in…

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What can one possibly say that might even begin to distill and codify 2016? From an endless string of celebrity deaths that prompted an...

The outsider

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It was a Saturday in July when Meursault killed the man. The man, an Arab, was lounging on the sun-drenched beach when Meursault approached....

reel to reel | Week of Jan. 19, 2012

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16 Love Sixteen-year-old Ally “Smash” Mash lives between the carefully painted white lines of Junior Tennis. Unbeaten and about to go pro, she has no time for lazy newcomer Farrell Gambles. But when fate and a twisted ankle intervene, she teaches Farrell what it ...

Free Japan!

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Movies are a reflection of culture. Be it comedy, survival or everyday angst, Americans find touchstones among the moving pictures we see. Yet looking beyond our own theaters can provide a glimpse of what is special to cultures on other parts of our planet...

The beast within

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The beauty of cinema is that nothing is what it seems. Images are not literal explanations, but visual descriptions of an emotional experience, and...

Wet and wild

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Everything was going so well for Jake Sully (Sam Worthington). He became a full-fledged Na’vi, the leader of the Omatikaya clan, married Neytiri (Zoe...

Strength and decay: One strongman’s quest for the American dream

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New Jersey strongman Stan “Stanless Steel” Pleskun, the “Strongest Man in the World at Bending Steel,” and his struggle to build a career performing feats of strength are the subject of New York filmmaker Zach Levy’s award-winning documentary Strongman, which will ...

Muted meditations

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I giggle, snicker and titter anytime someone opens the thesaurus piñata to describe a film like Certain Women with synonyms like “quietly modest” or “methodically...