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Replicant? No, repli-can!
It is profoundly insightful and upsetting that both Blade Runners explicitly tackle the sins of civilizations built on slavery and sexual subjugation without including...
Too much violence — despicable
Despicable Me is a surprisingly violent animated movie that suffers from being released within a few weeks of Toy Story 3. Where Toy Story 3 has warm characters who seek to do well by each other, Despicable Me is populated by characters who constantly hurt each ...
Bon appétit
It all starts so innocently: the invitation to a sleepover. The invited wants to go, but her father won’t let her. Not in a...
Restless leg syndrome
Feel free to call director Steven Soderbergh’s latest film (and potentially last, if you believe his retirement threats) a wacky mallard because it is one odd duck. If a Hitchcock movie took a Dateline NBC segment behind the art house theater and got it pregnant, ...
‘Love Actually’
Monday, December 30: Movie Night — Love Actually. 7:30 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720- 328-8328...
A nation of two and L.A. on my mind
Nothing else matters when you’re in love. People come and go, jobs come and go, the world turns, but none of that sticks. Not...
Never marry Brad Pitt
As creative luminaries Alfred Hitchcock and Sir Mix-a-Lot have demonstrated, a great end is crucial to quality art. Allied does not have a great...
Three young men seek identity in ‘Oriented’
As the American presidential race continues to heat up, more and more Americans divide themselves across party lines and political predilections. Yet, few see...
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...
BIFF: Just give him a camera
The National is a band of brothers. Aaron Dessner, on guitar and keyboard, and his twin brother Bryce, on guitar, are joined by Scott and Bryan Devendorf on bass and drums. Then there’s the odd-man-out: Matt Berninger, lead singer of the indie rock band...
Missed payoff
Maybe in a few years, the high-flying machinations of notorious Washington puppet-master Jack Abramoff and Michael Scanlon, his partner in crime, will be funny. But even with Kevin Spacey trying his carnival barker hardest in Casino Jack, it still feels too painfully...
