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Shadyac’s Travels

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The artist’s life is one of constant searching. Theirs is a restless journey, one constantly straining to see over the next horizon — and filmmaker Tom Shadyac’s journey has taken some unexpected turns that have finally brought him to Boulder...

MacGyver in space

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Time to wax nostalgic: Once upon a time, many congressional sessions ago, America dreamed of space. Instead of aircraft-carrier saber rattling, international tension was ratcheted in a contest to see who could invent more, reach further. The country was gripped with ...

Destination unknown

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When Ivan Locke left work, he had a family, a wife, a home, a job and a claim in one of Europe’s future skyscrapers. By the time he reaches his destination, he will have lost it all. To borrow Tolstoy’s opening line from Anna Karenina, “Happy commuters are all alike...

Kaiju goo goo

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Oscar-winning fish pornographer Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim was a just-fine endeavor hailed as near-sexually-satisfying by a vocal community blessed/cursed with low expectations. Pacific...

Play this movie loud

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Criterion releases 'The Last Waltz' on 4K UHD/Blu-ray

‘The Strip’ nothing great, but still engaging

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At first, The Strip...

Reel to reel | Week of December 19, 2013

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All is Lost...

‘How it feels to be black’

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Rediscovering Gordon Parks with Criterion’s release of ‘The Learning Tree’

Powerful pandemic picture

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One of the most powerful — and frightening — film themes is global pandemics. Diseases already seem to spread without us fully understanding or being able to control them, and rapidly evolve to become resistant to our defenses. It's not much of a leap to see a very ...

Training in 3-D

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How to Train Your Dragon, the latest film from Dreamworks Animation, tells the story of Hiccup ( Jay Baruchel), a young Viking and the only son of village chief, blacksmith and single dad Stoick The Vast (Gerard Butler). Hiccup is attracted to Astrid (America ...

Downhill

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Lyz Lopez started skiing when she was 4. Who knows what first drew her to the sport, but 11 years on the slopes have...