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Squash the spider, man!

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Spider-man’s new costume looks swell, and Emma Stone is charming. Those are the only two things about The Amazing Spider-Man 2 I didn’t hate with the fiery anger of a thousand exploding suns. Every other performance, every last bit of dialogue and plot, every ...

A volcanic love triangle

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Producer Shane Boris on ‘Fire of Love’

The endless rhythm of the night

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Have you every wondered why memories from your high school and college years always seem the clearest? The fondest? Back in the day, music...

Heck boi

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Hellboy feels like a two-hour “previously on Supernatural” recap, somehow set to even worse music. Anyone who has ever begrudgingly loved a “freak of...

Matters of life and death

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The first annual Life and Death Matters International Multimedia Festival — better known as LADmatters — promises to be a thought-provoking, engaging event with plenty to prick the senses. Running Sept. 1 to Sept. 4 at various venues in Boulder, the event ...

The International Film Series Celebrates 75 Years

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Celebrating its 75th anniversary this season, the International Film Series (IFS) is ready to shake things up with changes to its regularly scheduled programming. Casting...

One for something and all for nothing

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Terry Gilliam’s outlook of the future is bleak. It always has been. The director of Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, 12 Monkeys and The Fisher King made a name for himself as a director par excellence with 1986’s dystopian and paranoid Brazil, a movie that many count as...

‘No Home Movie’ is the last gasp for subject and...

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For the godfather of narrative cinema, D.W. Griffith, moving pictures “moved.” As he said in 1944, “What the modern movie lacks is beauty, the...

Fostering understanding

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The objective of the Boulder Jewish Film Festival is clear to its founding director, Kathryn Bernheimer: “To educate, to foster an appreciation, to create...

Out on the streets/down on the farm

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Don’t miss ‘Deep Cover’ at IFS and ‘Cow’ at the Boe

Cinema of the sacred

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There once was a time when some of the brightest thinkers wondered if movies were the answer. Could this new visual language topple tyrants?...

Onward

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Once upon a time, the world was filled with magic and wonder. But that was “once upon a time.” Nowadays, the world is dull...