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Movie Madness: The Best of 2013new

The sweet sixteen, elite eight and final four.
Boise Weekly  |  George Prentice  |  12-27-2013  |  Movies

Jugger-Net(Flix)new

Vince Gilligan told Variety that Breaking Bad wouldn't have made it past season one if not for Netflix timing the availability of past seasons so subscribers could catch up.
Boise Weekly  |  Amy Atkins  |  11-07-2013  |  Movies

Blue is the Warmest Color: Banned in Boise?new

Blue is the Warmest Color is too good not to be seen. If only Idaho Code would allow it.
Boise Weekly  |  George Prentice  |  10-09-2013  |  Reviews

Postcard from the Toronto International Film Festivalnew

With feel-it-in-your-bones resonance, four films--each a blockbuster--crashed upon the shore of Lake Ontario this past week, one right after the other, not just raising TIFF's curtain but shredding it.
Boise Weekly  |  George Prentice  |  09-11-2013  |  Movies

Capitalist? Terrorist? Don't Be Reluctant to See This Thrillernew

"In that moment [of 9/11], I felt the awe, audacity, the ruthlessness of the act, surpassed only by its genius."
Boise Weekly  |  George Prentice  |  05-15-2013  |  Reviews

Arise and Sprout Film Festivals Grow Social Awareness Through Cinemanew

It's easy to brush off movies as mindless escapism—it's especially easy to do when a film involves exploding robots. But sometimes films can make audiences not only feel, but think and act.
Boise Weekly  |  Jessica Johnson  |  05-02-2013  |  Movies

Jingo Pornnew

Olympus Has Fallen is the worst kind of exploitation as it marginalizes North Korea’s real-life despotism
Boise Weekly  |  George Prentice  |  04-18-2013  |  Reviews

Sun Valley Film Festival Will Only Become More Successfulnew

SVFF's real star-turn was in its lively, inside-the-velvet-rope Coffee Talks.
Boise Weekly  |  George Prentice  |  03-20-2013  |  Movies

From Boise to Kabul to the Oscarsnew

“Honestly, one of our goals was to make something that could win an Academy Award.”
Boise Weekly  |  George Prentice  |  02-07-2013  |  Movies

The Best of the Best: The Movie Year in Bracketsnew

The best? Argo and Zero Dark Thirty.
Boise Weekly  |  George Prentice  |  12-27-2012  |  Movies

The Fitzgerald Family Christmasnew

Ed Burns writes, directs and stars in a holiday tale of forgiveness and grace.
Boise Weekly  |  George Prentice  |  12-12-2012  |  Reviews

All That Glittersnew

Memo to the Academy: When you're handing out kudos, please don't forget these gems.
Boise Weekly  |  George Prentice  |  12-05-2012  |  Movies

Can I Have This Dance?new

Life requires a bit of choreography. Some of us just take a little longer to learn the moves.
Boise Weekly  |  George Prentice  |  11-21-2012  |  Reviews

Let's Get Meta-physicalnew

The film is touching, quite funny, very lovely to look at and intellectually mature.
Boise Weekly  |  George Prentice  |  11-15-2012  |  Reviews

Nobody Does It Betternew

Mission accomplished in Skyfall
Boise Weekly  |  George Prentice  |  11-07-2012  |  Reviews

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