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South Boulder Creek Trail Ski
My dad, Sarah, Adrian, Ann, and I head for the East Portal of the Moffat Tunnel, a railroad tunnel that goes under the continental divide at Rollins Pass, to scout for cross country ski and snowshoe opportunities. The mountains looks stormy, and the parking lot is cold and windy enough to convince Ann and Adrian…
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Movie: Talk To Her (2002)
This Spanish film by Pedro Almodóvar incorporates an impressive array of art forms to tell a compelling human story. Dance, film, music, bull fighting, photography, and even interior design are used effectively in the tale of a friendship between a travel writer and the isolated nurse of a girl in a coma who is in…
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Movie: The Brothers Grimm (2005)
Another disappointment from Terry Gilliam. If it will get Gilliam back on his feet so he can make another movie with some quality satire, social comment, and symbolism, then that will be this film’s best quality. Unfortunately, this one doesn’t have have enough of any of those things to be worth mentioning, and the other…
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Movie: 40-year-old Virgin (2005)
Looking for something mindless to distract us for a while, this movie delivered. Still, we nearly shut if off a few times from boredom, but it strung us along. There are some good gags and slapstick scenes that got me, but also a lot of jokes that relied on extending sexual misconceptions. Isn’t the truth…