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All about the show
Every Labor Day weekend since 1974, filmmakers, critics, historians, students, moviegoers and a handful of outdoorsmen and women converge on the quaint little mountain...
A feast for the eyes
Summer is over, school is back in session and that can only mean one thing: the glorious return of the University of Colorado Boulder’s own International Film Series (IFS...
Best picture(s)
Once
you overcome the one-inch-tall barrier of subtitles, you will be introduced to
so many more amazing films. —Bong Joon-ho’s Golden Globe acceptance
speech.
On May 25, 2019,...
Suburbs are hell
Things I was unprepared for in George Clooney’s Suburbicon, based on the trailers: (1) Fatt Damon spanking Julianne Moore (doing a weird Marilyn Monroe...
Listen to your soothsayer
Bad things happened to Julius Caesar on March 15, proof that you should always listen to your soothsayer...
Real guitar heroes in ‘It Might Get Loud’
What do Jack White from The White Stripes, The Edge from U2, and Jimmy Page from Led Zeppelin have in common, besides the obvious? Each represents a prominent part of a musical movement that thrives around one of the most significant instruments created in the past ...
More free dumb!
The exhaustive brilliance of both Mad Max: Fury Road and Creed means you can’t dismiss a sequel outright just because of a decades-long gap...
British invasion in ‘Pirate Radio’
Any film that’s built around the music of the mid-1960s starts out with one thing going for it: a great soundtrack. That Pirate Radio goes beyond that and offers up an entertaining and poignant story about loss of innocence is what makes it a film well worth your ...
Fantastic furry fun in ‘Mr. Fox’
In a world of children’s films increasingly characterized by technological accomplishment and sophisticated rendering in lieu of good old-fashioned storytelling, it was a breath of fresh air to enjoy the stop-motion Fantastic Mr. Fox...
We’ve always been this dirty
Not unlike the year 2016 in politics, writer/director Dee Rees’ adaptation of Hillary Jordan’s novel, Mudbound, starts off as a slow, plodding look at...


















