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Team Jarmusch
It’s amazing how popularity can change perception. When Stephanie Meyer’s 2005 novel, Twilight, cracked The New York Times bestseller list, vampires were brought back into the mainstream in a big way. Beginning in 2008, Meyer’s series was adapted into five movies and...
Taylor can’t Kitsch a break
Ask former Friday Night Lights actor Taylor Kitsch what he did this summer, and if he’s honest, he will tell you he set his career on fire. Yes, let us weep for Kitsch and his Greek God physique, overflowing bank accounts and unquestionable green light to mate with ...
Hard not to Laika
"Show your work.”
That statement is both an admonition given by rigid mathematics instructors and part of the reason why stop-motion animation continues to captivate....
The endless rhythm of the night
Have you every wondered why memories from your high school and college years always seem the clearest? The fondest? Back in the day, music...
Leni Riefen-stalling
On the one hand, any film subtitled “Part 1” is a naked cash grab. On the other hand, shut up and take my money, Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1...
Film-to-table
This might be a little naïve,” director Mitch Dickman tells Boulder Weekly. “But I’ve been... talking about this film-to-table idea. I think the food community has done a tremendous job of capitalizing on the farm-to-table movement. I don’t think film is all that ...
Dumb wolf in smart sheep’s clothes
To review The Wolf of Wall Street at this stage of the game is to enter into a narrative feud with able critical champions on both sides...
Poor 2013: Films in the coming year
Listen, 2013, you look cool. You really do, with your new Superman movie and lack of Twilight...
Here comes everybody
Where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves ... And where we had thought to be alone, we will be with...
Who watches ‘The Watch,’ man?
Seeing as how it has an extraterrestrial plot, let’s describe The Watch using an astronomical metaphor. Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill and Richard Ayoade are like comedic planets that orbit a central, burning sun. And that sun is made entirely of penis jokes. ...
Eyes open to the world
We don’t take enough time to stop and look around. That’s clear. We’re missing a lot of the good stuff — the artistic patterning in our architecture, the glint of airplanes in sunlight, the blur of a seagull’s wings against a gray sky, the flicker and shine of our ...
