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Sucker punched in the head
Imagine a building where one side is a dark, dreary insane asylum populated by sadistic guards, doctors and attractive female inmates, and the other side is a popular brothel and speakeasy. Sounds like the heart of a B-movie exploitation film, and that’s what Sucker ...
BolderLife Festival delivers films, speakers and theater
As the BolderLife Festival enters its second year on the scene, the film/theater festival will take on an array of taboo topics, giving audiences a platform to engage in in-depth discussions...
Light on bananas
In spurts, Kong: Skull Island is the whacked-out, gleeful nonsense director Jordan Vogt-Roberts clearly longed to make. Straight-jacketed by a studio determined to craft...
Free Japan!
Movies are a reflection of culture. Be it comedy, survival or everyday angst, Americans find touchstones among the moving pictures we see. Yet looking beyond our own theaters can provide a glimpse of what is special to cultures on other parts of our planet...
First Person Cinema
Started in 1955, CU-Boulder’s First Person Cinema is the longest-running program in the world screening avant-garde film and video work. Monday, Oct. 14’s show...
X marks the spotty
Like a car mechanic tasked with repairing a UFO or a political pundit faced with explaining Donald Trump’s cabinet appointments, critically appraising the third...
The right stuff
On May 14, 2018, Tom Wolfe — one of America’s most exuberant writers — died at the age of 88. Among his litany of...
Beware, young kayaker!
Do you like Black Mirror but wish it was far, far less interesting and clever? Do you think more movies these days need multiple...
Suparental sympathies
Over the years, The Incredibles has, somewhat cloyingly, become the thinking person’s answer to “best superhero movie.” Writer/director Brad Bird’s original, stylishly sly Fantastic...


















