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‘Extraordinary Measures’ is safe, not extraordinary
For its big screen debut, start-up studio CBS Films...
Gilda Radner: Her voice and her writing
There seems to be an endless fascination with the famed Saturday Night Live. While the merits of the weekly television show are continually debated...
A portrait of the president as a young man
The story of the Great Emancipator began on February 12, 1809 when Abraham Lincoln was born to Thomas and Nancy Hanks in a one-room log cabin in Kentucky. A few years later, the Lincolns left Kentucky, crossed the Ohio River to non-slave territory in Indiana and set ...
Film-to-table
This might be a little naïve,” director Mitch Dickman tells Boulder Weekly. “But I’ve been... talking about this film-to-table idea. I think the food community has done a tremendous job of capitalizing on the farm-to-table movement. I don’t think film is all that ...
Hawkes’ virginity Hunt-ed
America’s Puritanical origins mean that “sweetly sexual” may sound oxymoronic, but that phrase absolutely defines The Sessions, the softest and kindest movie to ever feature a star of Mad About You buck nekkid. Although nudity being “integral to the role” is a con ...
‘Panda’ not going extinct any time soon
It takes somewhat longer for the awesomeness to turn all that awesome. And you can’t really replicate that element of surprise that the first movie had going for it: a fan boy panda that gets to team up with his martial arts heroes...
‘We were there’
"Hollywood cinema has had a complicated relationship with race and ethnicity since its very beginning,” says Luis I. Reyes at the beginning of his...
A lesserknown masterpiece
Every decade, the British Film Institute conducts its Sight and Sound poll of the Greatest Movies Ever Made. In 2012, the top two films were familiar: Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo and Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane, but third was a dark horse: Yasujirô Ozu’s 1953 ...
In lieu of a theatrical experience: Summer edition
This was the weekend we were waiting for: A return to movie theaters in the time of coronavirus. Christopher Nolan’s latest blockbuster, Tenet, was...
Play these movies loud
It was just over a year ago, on March 6, 2020, when South By Southwest (SXSW) pulled the plug on its film, music and...


















