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‘The human at the center of it’
“I don’t think we see the human at the center of it,” Jamie Boyle says, “what their life looks like now, how they fell...
Partly sunny
To steal from Mother Goose (don’t worry, she’s dead): When Cloud Atlas is good, it’s very, very good; when it’s bad, Hugo Weaving is doing a drag impression of Nurse Ratched. The ambition of writers/directors Lana and Andy Wachowski and Tom Twyker, working from David...
You ain’t seen nothing yet
"It ain’t like it used to be. But it’ll do.” So says one grizzled old timer to another at the end of 1969’s The...
Coming of age
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 ...
Your lowness
What do you get when you combine an atrocious script with big-budget production and a bevy of top actors? Your Highness, one of the worst films I have had to sit through in a long time. To think that it featured Natalie Portman, James Franco and Zooey Deschanel ...
A beautiful invitation
If ever there was a word to describe Fred Rogers — the host of the long-running PBS show, Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood — it would...
reel to reel | Week of August 4, 2011
reel to reel For a list of local movie times visit boulderweekly.comAdventureland...
Indecent bro-posal
That’s My Boy isn’t just so bad that you would rather play a fun game of “scratch my retina with chicken wire” for 90 minutes, it’s so bad that writer David Caspe and director Sean Anders should be legally prosecuted for crimes against humanity. If this is what we’re...
Local buzz
There are some months when life in Colorado is an embarrassment of riches. April is one such month. And those craving moving images and...
