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Tennis, anyone?
Within every game, there’s a second game playing out inside the first. We can’t always see it, but it’s often much more significant than...
Press pass
When a teenage Melissa Benoist found herself facing graduation at Arapahoe High School in Littleton, the longtime performer had a hard time shaking the...
Separation anxiety
What are you boys fighting for?
That’s the question writer-historian Shelby Foote tries to answer in Ken Burns’ landmark 1990 documentary The Civil War. Foote...
Watching out loud
It happens every year: “We find something absolutely amazing, totally amazing, in the films. It’s not there, but we find it.”
So said the late...
Should’ve been a cowboy
As soon as John Carroll Lynch started acting as a teenager, it’s been serious business. Looking back on his performances at the Regis Jesuit...
The misanthrope
Midway through his life, Samet (Deniz Celiloğlu) looks around and sees nothing he likes. Originally from Istanbul, he obliges his mandatory teaching service in...
Blood simple
It started as love but it ended with a body in the desert. Sometimes, that’s how these things go.
But one look at the small...
Space is the place
When renowned documentarian and filmmaker Gabriela Cowperthwaite was initially approached about directing the sci-thriller I.S.S., she didn’t know anything about the International Space Station....
Stillness is a move
She makes the bed. She peels and boils the potatoes. She prepares the coffee and drinks milk. She cleans the small apartment she shares...
Spice world
You know he’s the one because he’s a movie star with piercing eyes, floppy hair, goth vulnerability and untapped strength all in one. He’s...
