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Movie Monday: The Roommate
Is it time for Hollywood to begin biting their collective, metaphorical nails? D-grade horror film The Roommate snagged box office honors this week with $15.6
Getting Snowed
Like much of the United States, Colorado has been in the grip of some extreme winter weather this week. While we dodged the heavy snow
Another Gloriously Royal Dimension
You’ve stocked your cabinets full of commemorative T-shirts, comic books, jewelry boxes and even a monogrammed servant’s bell, but you haven’t got your wedding invites
Did It Happen That Way? (And Does It Matter?)
According to most Oscar prognosticators, this year’s race to the Academy Awards Best Picture statuette may be a two-horse affair between The King’s Speech and
Skins: A Cultural Rorschach Test
Every now and then something comes along in the entertainment world that serves as an impromptu cultural Rorschach test of sorts. One person looks at
Movie Monday: The Rite
The faith-inflected frightfest The Rite scared up $15 million to claim No. 1 at the box office this weekend. It proved Anthony Hopkins, at the
A Week Without TV
The last week has been an interesting one for my family. Why? Because we shut off the TV completely. And it’s been fascinating to observe
Balancing Your Digital Kids
A friend of mine tells me his 3-year-old loves to play computer games. He shares that fact with equal parts pride, alarm and shock that
The Virtual Lies They Tell
I’ve been keeping an eye on a new video game that’s coming out soon called L.A. Noire. It’s a 1940s crime thriller being released by
Oscar: The Movie World’s Kingmaker
Oscar, America’s favorite naked golden statuette, bestowed its shiny favor on a handful of films this morning, honoring the fighter in all of them, their
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