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Dark side of ballet
Black Swan is a breathtaking, intense, horrifying and beautiful cinematic essay on obsession, maturity and the fine line between reality and fantasy, and it’s well worth seeing, regardless of whether you’re interested in ballet...
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...
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...
‘Would you like to play a game?’
They were friends in college, but it’s been 10 years since the whole group got together. Poor choices and hurt feelings came between them....
‘The Blind Side’ defies expectations
Sandra Bullock retrieves much of the career momentum that The...
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...
Diverse-i-see
Beyond the delightful oceans of tasty, tasty tears wept by whiny dudes whenever a non-hetero, non-white, non-bruh picks up a lightsaber or kicks a...
Red, white and very blue
I don’t know who Michael Moore is making movies for at this point. That’s not an indictment or even a suggestion that Where to Invade...
C’mon get happy
Judy Garland was born in
a trunk. Or so the story goes in A Star Is Born, a movie
about an aging actor on his way...


















