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Scorsese comes up short with ‘Shutter Island’
Dennis Lehane's character-packed but gimmicky novel "Shutter Island" earns a slightly less gimmicky film from Martin Scorsese, who makes this 1950s period piece his tribute to the psychological thrillers of Alfred Hitchcock...
Long Day’s Journey Into Night
When Avatar shattered box-office records in 2009, many
attributed the movie’s success to 3D’s profitability. And not just because
viewers were intrigued, but because tickets cost...
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...
Movie for schmucks
Dinner for Schmucks is a remake for schlemiels, or at least easy marks when it comes to formulaic Hollywood comedy. But the film’s peculiar sluggishness and nagging hypocrisy probably won’t get in the way of its popularity. It has a lot of funny people going for ...
Beasts of burden
The Jungle Book is director Jon Favreau’s “live-action” — if you count an entirely CGI environment with almost entirely CGI characters to be “live-action”...
News-sploitation
Recently, CNN showed reporters physically chasing a woman connected to the Ebola scare. Not too long ago, a Fox News affiliate aired a suicide live on television. So, no, Nightcrawler isn’t farfetched. It’s perfectly fetched. It’s importantly fetched...
Before ‘A long time ago…’
If I have seen further,” Sir Isaac Newton wrote to his peer, Robert Hooke, “it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”
The line...
Ladies might
Maybe it was the way Kate McKinnon’s hyperbolic Australian accent hilariously tortured the word “pizza” until it simultaneously had between one and seven syllables....
Not to sound crazy…
It may be hard for some to pick the lowest moment in M. Night Shyamalan’s career. After all, this is a man who made...
A revival you can’t refuse
Some movies never grow old. They exist outside of time and space, always there, always waiting for us to return. The Godfather and The Godfather: Part II are two such movies and they return to the big screen Sunday, June 22 at Century Theatre in Boulder...


















