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Vague ones

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I spent most of the beginning of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story trying to decide if Forest Whitaker’s character was named Saul, Sol,...

We are family

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If necessity is the mother of invention, then Inez de la Paz needs to invent a new life for herself and her little boy....

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...

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...

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...

Not your average bear

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‘Fury’ is missing fast

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Inside of writer/director David Fury is “we will hold this line” war movie populated with complex characters and surprisingly good performances. Problem is, it was slipped into the carcass vAC of a dirty, confused, overly serious, inconsistently grotesque snoozer in...

The act of seeing with one’s own eyes

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Human beings are creatures of sight. What we judge as real is commonly based on what we see and how we see, but there...

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...

Rom-com yawn

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The business plan behind CBS Films is simple: midsize projects with good-size headliners, such as Harrison Ford and Brendan Fraser of the inaugural CBS Films effort Extraordinary Measures, or Jennifer Lopez, who co-stars with Aussie hunk Alex O’Loughlin in the ...

‘Saint John of Las Vegas’ has comedic timing

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In "Saint John of Las Vegas," the hero's name is John "Alighieri," his job mentor is "Virgil," and the adversary they meet up with is "Lou Cipher...

Grindhouse ground out

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I have a friend who tells this one joke where it takes an eternity to get to the punch line. And that’s the real joke: that you donated so much of your time for such a small amount of pleasure. The psychology behind my friend’s “humor” has apparently become writer/...