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The good lie
Billi (Awkwafina) has come home to China. Specifically Changchun — a city she left at the age of 6, when her father relocated his...
Seduced by Paris
I feel like the Parisians kind of get me,” says Gil Pender in Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris, an early clue to this character’s cluelessness...
Requiem for a studio musician
Have you heard of The Wrecking Crew? The musical geniuses behind “These Boots Are Made For Walking,” “California Dreamin’,” “Good Vibrations” and more? No? Are you sure...
A couple of clowns
There is something in the air at the 39th Denver Film Festival (DFF), something musical. Be it Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling channeling the...
‘Keanu’ is bloated ‘Key & Peele,’ for better or worse
You either find it unbearably funny that a suburban dad named Clarence finds himself in a strip club called HPV surrounded by hardcore gangsters...
Kobayashi Magoo
If modern nerd culture has a “patient zero,” it was Mr. Trekkie (or Miss Trekker, if you’re nasty). Their legendary attention to detail is exceeded only by their willingness to speak Klingon in the most intimate of settings. And they’re really, really going to hate ...
Deathly boredom
After six successful films in the Harry Potter franchise, the setup for the final showdown between Potter and his archenemy, Voldemort, should have been an easy winner. That’s why Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 proves such a disappointment...
Wonder Woman versus chauvinism
In many ways, the comic book character Wonder Woman is very much a product of the time in which she was conceived — World War II America...
Waltzing with the enemy
Since 1994, Pierre Dulaine, subject of the 2013 documentary Dancing in Jaffa, has run a program called Dancing Classrooms, which teaches fifth graders the fundamentals of ballroom dance. The program teaches more than just footwork, it teaches the students elegance, ...
Back in the saddle
There’s a new sheriff at the CU International Film Series, and his name is Jason Phelps. If you’ve attended IFS in the past, you’ve...
A grand Bill: CU professor looks to make the biggest student...
While discussing his ambitious new project — “the biggest student film of all time” — director, screenwriter and University of Colorado assistant professor Alex Cox brings up an interesting point about anti-war movies. More specifically, about the lack thereof...
Seven shorts and a feature
If you’ve frequented film festivals in the past, then you know the highlight of any fest can be found in the short film packages....


















