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American boy
Soft-spoken and even, Charles Bukowski sounds nothing like his face looks. Or like his prose reads. In his introduction to the 1979 edition of...
The Little Mermaid grows some teeth
Thanks to Disney’s ability to cash-in on nostalgia, a tale as old as time with songs as old as rhyme is back in theaters...
My name is Marina Vidal
Marina Vidal (Daniela Vega, Chile’s first openly transgender actress and model) is a waitress with designs of being a singer. And with a voice...
The greatest of all time
Hyperbole is great for journalism, terrible for art. Granted, the above headline might draw attention, clicks and (hopefully) puts asses in the seats, but...
The center will not hold
When Star
Wars debuted in 1977, it was an immediate revolution of cinema and
culture. Audiences voted with their wallets: This is how we want our...
Just Mercy
Monroeville, Alabama,
1987: A man is condemned to death for a crime he did not commit. Do you need to
know the color of his skin,...
An orgy of one
Why do you want to dance?
Why do you want to live?
Well, I don’t know exactly why, but I must.
That’s my answer too.
—Boris Lermontov and...
‘Moby-Dick’ on horseback
It should have been a classic. Major Dundee, a new kind of Western with Charlton Heston as the titular major. This was the 1960s, and...
Home viewing: Satire streams
A lecture may get your point across, but a story illustrates it better. And if you can smuggle in a little humor, it’s a...
Ten short films about morality
Famed Polish writer/director Krzysztof Kieslowski already had a handful of feature films and documentaries under his belt when his writing partner, Krzysztof Piesiewicz, gave...
See you at the movies?
It’s Tuesday at 3 p.m. outside the Century Theater in Boulder’s Twenty Ninth Street Mall, and it’s quiet. Too quiet.
You’ll have to excuse the...
The long of it
About a decade ago, a bunch of rich assholes collapsed the world’s economy because they were dumb, evil and greedy. They didn’t go to...
