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Cage shines as corrupt New Orleans cop
"Anything’s possible in this storm!” says the man with the badge in Werner Herzog’s delirious Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, a true feat of daring and one of the craziest films of the year. It’s a very loose remake of 1992’s Bad Lieutenant, in which ...
A surreal take on a classic
Tolstoy’s classic novel of love and infidelity, Anna Karenina has been brought to stage and screen many times, often with mediocre results due to its complexity. Pay attention: It’s mid-1800s Russia, and Anna (Keira Knightley) is married to Karenin (Jude Law), a dull...
Camp Crystal Fake-Out
What’s funny is that writer Joss Whedon and writer/director Drew Goddard are going to get praised for how original The Cabin in the Woods is...
reel to reel | Week of Dec. 8, 2011
Arthur Christmas See full review Page 37. Rated PG. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. Crazy Wisdom: The Life and Times of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche Raised and trained in the rigorous Tibetan monastic tradition, Trungpa came to the West and shattered ...
Sam and Max deliver the laughs again
It was a boring weekday night when I stumbled across what I thought was a relic from my youth: a Sam and Max video game, fully restored and buyable from the Playstation Network store. But I was wrong. Delightfully wrong. The game I had found was Sam & Max: The Devil...
Tame, lame video game
Glam it up all you want: Ender’s Game is about a kid playing a high-stakes video game. And before Fred Savage-fueled the visions of The Wizard go Super- Mario-dancing in your head, you should know this features absolutely no Power Glove love...
When the system wins
It doesn’t take long for Alex Cox, University of Colorado Boulder assistant professor and director of such cult classics as Repo Man, Sid & Nancy, Walker and The Highway Patrolman (which screens at the International Film Series on Wednesday, Oct. 5), to show his ...
‘Cop Out’ joins the lineup of buddy cop flicks
Distilled to its manly essence, the cop-buddy movie...
Pop culture, popped
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping is an all-you-can-eat buffet of comedic gluttony, serving humorous dishes to please every palate. Whatever your taste, you can...
