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The long goodbye
Dick Johnson isn’t dead. Not yet, at least. But he will be. We all will, sooner or later. And it’s sooner for Dick if...
‘What cinema is capable of, at all ends of the spectrum’
Kathryn Bernheimer — programmer of the Boulder Jewish Film Festival (BJFF) — knows what her audience wants.
“Opening and closing films have to be feel-good,”...
Aubrey Plaza hilarious in a wasted effort
Before anything else: How great is Aubrey Plaza, right? From her droll, intentionally weird character on NBC’s Parks and Recreation to her killer late-night TV interviews (just watch the last one with Conan O’Brien if you doubt), Plaza is deliciously and completely ...
Flood of clichés
Photographed with the same image acquisition technology James Cameron used on Avatar, the movie on which we can blame most of the cruddy 3-D films since, the new suspense thriller Sanctum, executive-produced by Cameron, presents images (underwater, generally) of ...
Otra lente
According to the U.S. Census, 17.1 percent of the population is Hispanic or Latino. In Colorado, the number is even higher, with Hispanics and Latinos making up 21 percent of the state’s 5.26 million residents. But even with a reach that spans one in five Coloradans...
Alien revolution from ‘Avatar’
Avatar is a movie about manifest destiny and second thoughts, a...
Bleak and white
Celebrated narcissist and Freddy Krueger look-a-like Frank Miller gives the women he writes a plethora of career choices. They can be prostitutes, strippers, bondage-wearing murderers or corpses. Some get to be all of those! Sin City: A Dame to Kill For is part ...
The totality of me
Call Marlon Riggs whatever you want. He describes himself as an “independent documentary producer,” but if you want to call him a Black gay...
‘When in Rome’ fails as romantic comedy
You'd think by now Hollywood would have romantic comedies down to a cell-phone ap any studio exec could access...
The way of the future
If all had gone according to plan, the internet would have made a rather inauspicious debut, but perhaps it wasn’t meant for modesty. On...
















