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Better living through cinema
From March 9 to 19, the Boulder Jewish Film Festival will screen over 20 different films of various lengths with subjects of inclusion, diversity...
It’s like ‘Cheers’ but with movies
In the past decade, Video Station has saved my ass on many occasions. As a burgeoning film studies major at the University of Colorado...
Slightly worse white people
The satirical thesis of writer/director Jordan Peele’s Get Out is so deliciously literal, Jonathan Swift modestly proposes that his recipe has been bitten. The...
Brick-a-Bat
Forget “Don’t Tread on Me.” If Americans really wanted a flag that captures our collective mentality, it would be a morbidly obese snake with...
Local boy makes God
The old school newspaper headline, “Local boy makes good,” seems to have fallen out of fashion of late. Should we blame the 24-hour news...
Ushering in a great era film
Last weekend in an epic mix-up of Steve Harvey proportions, underdog Moonlight triumphed over the season’s darling La La Land to win best picture...
The filmmaker too tough to die
Few filmmakers are as devoted to cinema as Alex Cox. Since his debut in 1984, Cox has made movies for the studios, for BBC’s...
Baldwin blues
“The story of the Negro in America is the story of America. It is not a pretty story.”
—James Baldwin
By the time James Baldwin...
Salute your shorts
It’s Oscar season at the movies and that means celebrating the cinematic high-water marks that 2016 brought. And with 62 nominated films to choose...
Never let ’em see you sweat
The band is just settling into their hotel in Lake Tahoe when Dawes’ drummer, Griffin Goldsmith, calls to chat. It’s par for the course;...
Not to sound crazy…
It may be hard for some to pick the lowest moment in M. Night Shyamalan’s career. After all, this is a man who made...
