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I’ll miss you, 2014
From a purely fiscal standpoint, 2014 sucked. Box office totals are likely to finish at the lowest amount since 2008, which I’m sure makes everyone feel real bad for the billionaires in Hollywood. For those of us who could care less about opening day multipliers and ...
‘The Departed’ beer dinner
The timing couldn’t be better. The Alamo
Drafthouse’s series, Hot Takes & Remakes, is a bizarre and beautiful
collection of 30ish movies — some revered, some...
Numerically accurate
Among the last words of 1960s The Magnificent Seven is this Nietzschian fortune cookie quote: “We lost. We’ll always lose.” At the end of...
No-town music
At its worst, cinema verite is aimless pretense masquerading as artistic intent. At its best, it is Detropia, a documentary that adds soul to statistics, going inside the implosion of a once-proud city using a sprawling, haunting approach. That isn’t to say that ...
A star is born
One of the many pleasures of going to the movies is the discovery of new ideas, new voices and new faces. Last weekend, that...
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
Tuesday. March 11: Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry. 7:30 p.m. Muenzinger Auditorium, Boulder, 303-492-1531...
Indifference wins the day
The best romantic comedies have a blithe, take-it-or-leave-it spirit. Larry Crowne has the opposite. It’s the neediest movie of 2011, and one of the phoniest...
Couldn’t put eggsy together again
When done well, a movie that simultaneously exists as a certain thing while satirizing that same thing resembles a Mobius strip, a tantalizing narrative...
Rock ’n’ roll odd couple
Extremely raunchy, Get Him to the Greek is also very funny. Like the film that first paired Jonah Hill and Russell Brand, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, the new comedy is unexpectedly sincere about the thing that matters most in a relationship: trust. It is also ...
Don’t escape – innovate
After a long, hard day at work, many people find themselves in front of a brightly lit screen, immersed in what they consider pure entertainment. To them, it’s a chance to let go, to forget about their troubles, to distract themselves from their boring existence on...
A foggy reflection
In 1998, Walt Disney Feature Animation released its 36th film, its first and only retelling of a Chinese legend: Mulan, the story of a...
Cinema 101
I guess you could say the low point arrived on March 27, 2022, with the broadcast of the 94th Academy Awards. No, the “slap...