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Solid cast helps ‘2012’ overcome flaws
Nothing like a dandy evening's apocalypse to take the edge...
IFS unlocks the artistry of Wim Wenders
Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man abroad and at home. Sing to me his story as a wanderer and a traveler,...
We will not grow old together
It all started so well.
There was love, and there was kindness. There was understanding, and there was
support. And then one day, there wasn’t. The...
Home viewing: Pride streams
It was President Bill Clinton who first declared June “Gay & Lesbian Pride Month.” That was in 2000. In 2009, President Barack Obama opened...
Home viewing: Palme d’Or winners
The origins of France’s Cannes Film Festival lay not in La République, but neighboring Italy. Specifically, 1937’s Venice Film Festival, when Benito Mussolini stuck...
Just Mercy
Monroeville, Alabama,
1987: A man is condemned to death for a crime he did not commit. Do you need to
know the color of his skin,...
‘This isn’t unique to Boulder’
When Katrina Miller was a journalism student at CU Boulder some 20 years ago, the student body president—Mebraht Gebre-Michael, also a Black woman—received an...
The center will not hold
When Star
Wars debuted in 1977, it was an immediate revolution of cinema and
culture. Audiences voted with their wallets: This is how we want our...
Swiping Boulder
Boulder’s reputation as the land of high-altitude hotties obscures a cruel truth: Dating here is hard. As locals on “the apps” know, swiping through...
The Iron Giant
Before the 1990s, animated
family films were in the gutter. Deemed too expensive, too labor-intensive,
their demise was certain. But then came The
Little Mermaid, and a...
The last masterpiece
On April 23, 1917, Buster Keaton made his theatrical debut in Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle’s The Butcher Boy. Three years later, Keaton would strike out...
See you at the movies?
It’s Tuesday at 3 p.m. outside the Century Theater in Boulder’s Twenty Ninth Street Mall, and it’s quiet. Too quiet.
You’ll have to excuse the...
