Homespun cinema

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You got it, Bob

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Gear Up

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Fade to Winter...

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...

A perfect gentleman

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Fading Gigolo, which opened The Boulder International Film Festival in February and is now enjoying a theatrical run, begins in a truly unexpected fashion: a pimp and his hoe discussing business while packing up a used bookstore. The pimp, Murray (Woody Allen), ...

The Iron Giant

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Before the 1990s, animated family films were in the gutter. Deemed too expensive, too labor-intensive, their demise was certain. But then came The Little Mermaid, and a...

‘Fish Tank’ has same strains of ‘Precious’

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LOS ANGELES — Mia is 15, all elbows and anger, going at her life in a rundown apartment complex in Essex as if it were one long skirmish in British filmmaker Andrea Arnold's exceptionally well-crafted drama, "Fish Tank...

Planet

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New Horizons to the Pluto System...

‘A picture with a smile — and perhaps, a tear’

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Like it or not, artists change. Though we wish to preserve them in amber, those we hold near and dear grow into individuals that...

‘Once upon a time in Uganda’

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Isaac Nabwana was a bricklayer with movies on his mind. But Uganda didn’t have the resources for Isaac’s dreams. By Isaac’s admission, his neighborhood,...

Reel to reel | Week of September 27

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THE AFRICAN QUEEN...

Three’s a charm

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If Toy Story 3 had sprung, Slinky Doglike, from any creative think tank besides Pixar Animation Studios, it might be considered a classic. As is, it’s a good sequel to the 1999 Toy Story 2 and the 1995 original. After a rather shrill and conventional first half, ...

She don’t lie, she don’t lie, she don’t lie

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It sure is fun to be young. Not yet old enough to experience that odd combination of nostalgia and melancholy that plagues most adults,...

Stupid friends

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Here are five things I didn’t know before watching Justice League: 1) “The uncanny valley” is actually an area located on the upper lip of...