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Sacrilege though it may be to fellow comic aficionados, facts are still facts: As a character, Wolverine kind of sucks. Moody and hairy, the...

News-sploitation

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Recently, CNN showed reporters physically chasing a woman connected to the Ebola scare. Not too long ago, a Fox News affiliate aired a suicide live on television. So, no, Nightcrawler isn’t farfetched. It’s perfectly fetched. It’s importantly fetched...

John Hughes for kids

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Released a year ago, the first Diary of a Wimpy Kid movie captured remarkably little of the sly charm of the Jeff Kinney books that line my son’s bookshelf. The film did, however, capture enough of the fan base to warrant a sequel. And here we are. And it’s a little ...

Sin eater

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The man sits alone in his room. His name is Narvel Roth (Joel Edgerton) and he is a gardener, but he might as well...

Local boy makes God

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The old school newspaper headline, “Local boy makes good,” seems to have fallen out of fashion of late. Should we blame the 24-hour news...

R2D2 meets the AARP

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First things first: although she’s only eight years younger than he is, nobody will accept that Susan Sarandon would want to kiss Frank Langella on his mouth parts. That premise requires a bigger suspension of disbelief than the rest of Robot & Frank, which presumes ...

Behold the new flesh

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

Clips of faith

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Friday, July 11: New Belgium’s Clips of Faith Tour. 8 p.m. 29th Street Mall, 1710 29th St., Boulder...

Requiem for a studio musician

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Have you heard of The Wrecking Crew? The musical geniuses behind “These Boots Are Made For Walking,” “California Dreamin’,” “Good Vibrations” and more? No? Are you sure...

The return of the virtual Sundance Film Festival

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For the second year in a row, the Sundance Film Festival returns to Colorado. Well, to anyone with an internet connection and a movie...

An unpretentious timewaster

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Ten percent to the usual charities?” I love a line like that, smack in the middle of a scene featuring bank robbers dividing up the spoils. It proves they’re good guys at heart, willing to spread it around (if only for the sake of appearances) while blowing the rest ...

‘Would you like to play a game?’

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They were friends in college, but it’s been 10 years since the whole group got together. Poor choices and hurt feelings came between them....