Jack Tuller is terminal. It’s a brain tumor that’ll do it, one he’s had since the early 1990s. Back then, the doctors gave Jack six months to live. But after a successful surgery removed a good chunk of the tumor, … Continue reading JACK HAS A PLAN
Change your mind. For once in your life, change your mind. Those are the words Fen hurls at Thomas Dunson, a hardheaded man with money on his mind. Fourteen years later, another woman will say something similar to Dunson, only this … Continue reading RED RIVER
Boulder’s festival of films, food, music, and adventure returns with the 19th annual Boulder International Film Festival (BIFF). Screening March 2-5, across four venues, BIFF hosts more than 70 features and shorts and a series of staples that have come … Continue reading THE QUIET GIRL (AN CAILÍN CIÚIN)
There’s a facility in eastern Ukraine where parents who can no longer care for their children can drop them off for nine months. If they can get their act together in that time, then they can pick up their kids … Continue reading A HOUSE MADE OF SPLINTERS
Jennifer Lawrence plays Lynsey, a soldier returning from Afghanistan after a traumatic experience. Brian Tyree Henry plays James, a mechanic drifting through life trying to put his own trauma behind him. Yes, they come together and help each other, but … Continue reading CAUSEWAY
It starts with a young girl catching grasshoppers outside a cabin in the woods. Then a man approaches. He’s a big man, as thick as a tree and with tattoos covering practically every inch of skin, but his voice is … Continue reading KNOCK AT THE CABIN
The nominees for the 95th Academy Awards are in: 54 movies competing in 23 categories. The headlines already belong to the genre-smashing Everything Everywhere All at Once—11 nominations in total, including Best Picture, Best Director, and four acting noms—and the … Continue reading ARGENTINA, 1985
Orson Welles needed money. That’s how this story begins. Back in 1946, Welles was putting the finishing touches on an ambitious stage production of Around the World in 80 Days—a musical!—and funds were running dry. So he called studio boss … Continue reading THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI
Newly restored and available on Blu-ray from The Criterion Collection, 1934’s Imitation of Life opens with two single mothers: Beatrice (Claudette Colbert) and Delilah (Louise Beavers). Beatrice, white, is recently widowed and trying to keep her husband’s maple syrup company … Continue reading IMITATION OF LIFE
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