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Kevin Costner hates you

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He laid low...

Staining our national honor

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You can’t control the world, but you can control your reaction. Reactions define the individual, and in Scott Z. Burns’ The Report, the tragic events of...

Hubris is for rookies

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The John DeLorean story has it all: Cars, cocaine, supermodels, countries at war, political scuffles on both sides of the Atlantic, an FBI sting...

Meet the new boss

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Dior. The name itself invokes the very highest of French fashion. One of the original members of haute couture, Christian Dior opened his Parisian house in December of 1946 when he was just 41. By February 1947, Dior launched “The New Look,” as Harper’s Bazaar editor...

Never gonna be president now

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A fitting fable: Scorpion asked Frog if he would carry him across the river. Frog, afraid of being stung by Scorpion, hesitated. “Never fear,” Scorpion...

Coming of age

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Since his 1991 debut, Slacker, writer/director Richard Linklater has quietly become the most reflective director in American cinema. In the documentary Double Play: Jack Benning and Richard Linklater (Gabe Klinger 2013), currently available via Video on Demand, he ...

‘Living Dead Girl’

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She was born Norma Jean Baker in 1926, but she died Marilyn Monroe in 1962. Between those two dates and names lived one of...

‘Gentlemen Broncos’ tedious, unfocused

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Once upon a time there was a weird little thrift-shop comedy...

Zac Efron cries a lot

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The Motion Picture Association of America has given Charlie St. Cloud a PG-13 rating for, among other things, “an intense accident scene,” which is the best way to describe the film itself. With some supernatural melodramas, you may buy what’s on the page, as with...

Review: The Portal: A Cosmic Rock Odyssey

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Billed as modern interpretation of a classic shamanic journey, The Portal: A Cosmic Rock Odyssey combines film, music and lighting to try and create a surreal, out-of-body, perhaps even religious experience for its audience. In the case of the audience at the Boulder...

The context of classics

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There is a special kind of joy that accompanies revisiting a favorite movie time and time again. We see ourselves in the faces of...

You’re standing on my neck

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The year was 1997. Hanson’s “MMMBop” was jostling with Aqua’s “Barbie Girl” for the top spot on the charts, Bill Clinton’s “sexual relations” with Monica Lewinsky were still private, and an MTV animated cult hit about two morons in high school called Beavis and ...