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Seyfried and Tatum bring the love to ‘Dear John’
Come on, with a title like "Dear John," you know there has to be some heartache, right...
Diabetes: the real monster
Hansel (Jeremy Renner) has diabetes. This is not a throwaway character trait, not a bit of bizarre nuance in a quasi-steampunk re-imagining of a Grimm fairy tale. The fact that Hansel must stop combating the forces of darkness whenever his wrist-alarm-thingie goes ...
Powerful pandemic picture
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 ...
Submit to the scare tactics
Imagine you’ve checked into your hotel room, passing by signs at the hotel entrance about a boy gone missing and seen a distraught man handing out more copies of that same flyer. “How sad,” you think. And what a weekend to lose your child, when the town is overrun ...
Death or psychosis
You have to let go of the living,” says the funeral director played by Liam Neeson to Anna, the dead schoolteacher in the red slip, played by Christina Ricci, in the new thriller After.Life. He sounds like the stage manager in a particularly grim production of Our ...
Reel to reel | Week of July 4, 2013
The BolderLife Festival films are showing this week at the SIE Film Center. For a full listing of the films go to denverfilm.org...
Cotillard’s coattails
Given that France is America’s go-to national punching bag for milquetoast xenophobic jokes, it is a testimony to her towering talent that Marion Cotillard is an Oscar-winning box office draw. Even reducing her physical presence by a third in her latest, Rust and ...
Glorious geekdom
Let me just start out by admitting that Tron: Legacy is one of the most entertaining geeky sci-fi films I’ve seen this year and is sure to fill theaters for months to come...
Looking to illuminate: The DocuWest Film Festival
Documentary film festivals can be a hard sell. You don’t get the star power that goes with fictional films, the impossibly dramatic moments, or the singularly well-crafted denouement that wraps the whole thing up into one resonant piece. The documentary is all about ...
