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Some reviews originate at other newspapers that do not award star ratings.
Here are selected minireviews of films in theaters, listed alphabetically.
“27 Dresses”
Romantic comedy **1/2* PG-13. Katherine Heigl stars as not-so-plain Jane, the dependable friend that every bride leans on when that special day comes along. Jane is the ultimate bridesmaid, helping with the planning, the [...]
21
Feb
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21
Feb
Now
showing
Some reviews originate at other newspapers that do not award star ratings.
Here are selected minireviews of films in theaters, listed alphabetically.
“27 Dresses”
Romantic comedy **1/2* PG-13. Katherine Heigl stars as not-so-plain Jane, the dependable friend that every bride leans on when that special day comes along. Jane is the ultimate bridesmaid, helping with the planning, the [...]
15
Feb
MIAMI %26mdash; So this time the guy with the white suits and dazzling spats is wading through the cultural intersections of Miami. Already, Tom Wolfe has visited several times as tourist, sponge, anthropologist and journalist. Always journalist.
At 76, the best-selling author is writing a novel about Miami, peering through his vintage magnifying glass at [...]
15
Feb
For any band making its first record, it’s tough enough to write music that entertains and keeps the fans satiated, chanting along and coming back for more.
But in the making of their debut LP, “Fight With Tools,” the Flobots weren’t satisfied with entertainment alone.
“We were thinking that music could be something more than entertainment,” [...]
8
Feb
NEW YORK - Mary Matalin, conservative pundit and adviser to former presidential candidate Fred Thompson, has attacked Sen. John McCain for his stances on taxes and immigration and for the “madness” of jumping on “the pseudo-religious global warming bandwagon.”
Matalin is also head of the conservative Threshold Editions, an imprint of Simon %26amp; Schuster. With McCain [...]
3
Feb
Peter Debauer, a boy growing up in postwar Germany is raised with the ghost of his father, a Swiss citizen who was killed while working for the Red Cross. Peter becomes obsessed with a “homecoming” novel of German soldiers suffering tremendous hardships returning from the eastern front. The melodramatic book, with chunks stolen liberally from [...]
3
Feb
Editor’s Choice
Strangers in Death, by J.D. Robb, $25.95. In best seller Robb’s slick, 26th not-so-near-future crime thriller to feature Lt. Eve Dallas (after 2007’s “Creation in Death”), the New York City homicide cop investigates the murder of business tycoon Thomas Anders, whose strangled body is discovered tied to his bed. Publishers Weekly
Fiction [...]
3
Feb
The New York Times listings are based on sales at 3,985 bookstores and wholesalers with 50,000 retail outlets for the week ended Jan. 19.
FICTION
1. Plum Lucky, by Janet Evanovich, $17.95
2. People of the Book, by Geraldine Brooks, $25.95
3. A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini, $25.95
4. Beverly Hills Dead, by [...]
3
Feb
The Denver area’s best-selling books, according to information from the Tattered Cover Book Store, Barnes %26 Noble in Greenwood Village, Boulder Book Store and Borders Books in Englewood.
FICTION
1. Duma Key, by Stephen King, $28
2. People of the Book, by Geraldine Brooks, $25.95
3. A Golden Age, by Tahmima Anam, $24.95
4. The [...]
3
Feb
Editor’s Choice
Strangers in Death, by J.D. Robb, $25.95. In best seller Robb’s slick, 26th not-so-near-future crime thriller to feature Lt. Eve Dallas (after 2007’s “Creation in Death”), the New York City homicide cop investigates the murder of business tycoon Thomas Anders, whose strangled body is discovered tied to his bed. Publishers Weekly
Fiction [...]
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