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You got it, Bob
I started putting a bunch of dick jokes on Twitter the other day, and I just kept doing it because it was really annoying people,” says Bob Saget. “Well, I’m a 9-year-old boy. You tell me not to say something, and I’ll just say it...
Mother is the first other
Rashaan Salaam and Kordell Stewart!” Sarah Adina Smith cheers with delight, recalling her high school years as a University of Colorado Boulder Buffs fan...
Hollywood’s golden year
It’s hard to overstate the significance of 1939 in American cinema.
Even though the movies were nearly four decades old, a series of events and...
A boy’s best friend is his cow
The 1925 Buster Keaton classic Go West opens, “Some people travel through life making friends wherever they go, while others — just travel through life...
Down these mean streets
I was gonna be a dancer. I was a brunette. Started on my toes and wound up on my heels.
So says Ruth Roman in Tomorrow...
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...
When dinosaurs roamed the land
There once was a time in the not-too-distant cinematic past where the world was still largely undiscovered and areas of the planet were a mystery to modern man. What beasts lived on these islands? What creatures were in these jungles? What was out there, lurking in ...
‘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,”...
No country for poor men
Like a slow, rumbling thrum, the inevitability of Hell or High Water’s final act patiently chugs at you. One of those rare, gritty, morally...
Cinema without borders
CU-Boulder’s International Film Series isn’t just Boulder’s first art-house series; it also features one of the best programs out there. From international sensations to...
‘Nothing’s gonna change my world’
Peter Parker was just another kid in New York City when he was bitten by a radioactive spider, bringing physical gifts (and a simultaneous...
A slice of ‘Ninja’
The extraordinarily violent Ninja Assassin opens with a tough guy Yakuza gang leader having a tattoo inked on his back by a mysterious old man who talks about the four noble professions, the five rings, and other cliché Japanese cultural mumbo-jumbo. A henchman ...
