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Squad goals

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Both the original Star Trek and Star Trek: The Next Generation got to warm up on the small screen before being called up to...

‘When in Rome’ fails as romantic comedy

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You'd think by now Hollywood would have romantic comedies down to a cell-phone ap any studio exec could access...

Whirl fools

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Imagine watching Star Wars and deciding the franchise should forever forward follow C-3PO. And that C-3PO was played by a former hunk who now...

Ditching the mansion for the trailer

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Filmmaker Tom Shadyac is best known for comedies such as Bruce Almighty, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective and The Nutty Professor, which have filled his bank account with plenty of green. However, Shadyac, whose newest film, I AM, lands in Denver at the Landmark Chez ...

Winner of the Grand Jury Prize in Documentary at the Sundance...

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A penetrating look at death and dying, How to Die in Oregon is an HBO-produced documentary that explores the lives of people suffering from debilitating terminal illness.  Oregon was the first state in the nation to legalize physician-assisted suicide in 1994, and, ...

International Film Series prepares a program of kung fu and musicals

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I have always thought of the movie theater as my church,” says Pablo Kjolseth, executive director of the International Film Series (IFS). “It has a meditative quality. To be able to actually sit down in a dark theater where you can’t have all of your electronics ...

Glorious geekdom

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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...

Reel to reel | Week of July 4, 2013

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The BolderLife Festival films are showing this week at the SIE Film Center. For a full listing of the films go to denverfilm.org...

Peter Jackson’s latest: ‘The Lovely Bones’

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It won't surprise you that to New Zealand filmmaker Peter Jackson, heaven, or at least a lovely version of purgatory, looks an awful lot like the forests and valleys of New Zealand...

Looking to illuminate: The DocuWest Film Festival

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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 ...

Cinema highlights

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How bad of a year was it for movies? As late as August, I was wondering if there would be enough films to fill a list of 10. Then came the fall movie season and everything changed...

What you make of it

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The first thing you should know about the International Film Series (IFS) is that, when you go, you will watch your movie in peace....