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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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