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‘Daybreakers’ follows standard vampire flick model
In the "Daybreakers" future, the vampires have it all worked out...
A pretty smart idiot
Floating through life on a personal high only partly provided by cannabis, the bearded, Crocs-sporting, semiprofessional farmer specializing in organics (or rather, “biodynamics”) is played, winningly, by Paul Rudd in an enjoyable shamble of a picture called Our ...
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 ...
The tin shine of BIFF
As the Boulder International Film Festival (BIFF) celebrates its 10th anniversary, founders Kathy and Robin Beeck have much to celebrate...
In space, particles accelerate you
At this rate, the next installment in the Cloverfield pseudo-franchise is going to suddenly appear as just a memory of you having seen the...
Don’t shoot, shoot, shoot that thing at me
Like many of my favorite scenes from The Accountant, the best one never actually happens.
Having just watched hunky dreamboat/obvious-serial-killer accountant Christian Wolff (Ben...
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...
Hard not to Laika
"Show your work.”
That statement is both an admonition given by rigid mathematics instructors and part of the reason why stop-motion animation continues to captivate....
Under a rock
With 127 Hours, the Oscar-winning director of Slumdog Millionaire proves it’s possible to make a supercharged, perpetually kinetic movie about a man who can’t move. It is something, this film from director Danny Boyle, who adapted Aron Ralston’s memoir Between a Rock...
