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Reel to reel | Week of August 22, 2013

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20 Feet From Stardom...

Breathe in the Smaug

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Things you should know by now: (1) All Peter Jackson-directed fantasy films near or top three hours in length; (2) there are deviations from the books because these are movies and not books — I’m told if you would like to read The Hobbit, you can still read The ...

How do you see the world?

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A father is sick and the son is beckoned to his side. While the son waits for his father to die, he meets another wayward...

‘The Twilight Saga: New Moon’: Love at second bite

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Filmmaker Chris Weitz said that he knew the Twilight phenomenon had gone off the rails when the female...

Activism with an authentic flavor

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The Dairy Center for the Arts is doing something unique, so pay attention. The Americas Latino Eco-Festival Film Forum covers three continents (North and South America and Antarctica), provides a much-needed voice for the Latino community, discusses political and ...

Hometown heroes

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March might be the best month for Boulder moviegoers. From the smattering of archival prints unspooling at CU-Boulder’s International Film Series to the delightfully bizarre and thought-provoking...

We’ve always been this dirty

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Not unlike the year 2016 in politics, writer/director Dee Rees’ adaptation of Hillary Jordan’s novel, Mudbound, starts off as a slow, plodding look at...

Foster

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Colorado Foster Care and Adoption Film Festival...

Songs of Solomon

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For whatever reason, avant-garde art films have never gained the pop-culture cachet achieved by other realms of the art world...

I am (not) a number

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Who is Number One? So asks Number Six, the prisoner, played by actor and show co-creator, Patrick McGoohan. And so asked the hoards of TV...

Puttin’ on the ritz

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Horror movies are wondrous things. With a horror movie, one can confront their deepest darkest fears and survive them. The rush of adrenaline at the sight of danger gives way to the sigh of relief and chuckle of amusement when that danger is revealed to be harmless. ...

Reel to reel | Week of July 5, 2012

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ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER No more sensitive, sparkly vampires — Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter takes bloodsuckers back to their grisly origins as terrifying monsters. In the film’s universe, Southern slave owners are vampires, and President Lincoln is the one...