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Film looks at Coloradans overcoming disabilities

June 25 — Fifty-four million Americans battle with some form of disability every day. Whether it is paralysis, deafness, amputations, multiple sclerosis, blindness or Traumatic Brain Injury, many have to live with these disabilities for the remainder of their lives. The film “Invisible Voices,” which debuted June 21, 2010, captures the essence of those who have to live with their disability and reveals the confusion, depression, everyday struggles, tears and even laughter.

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A hunt for the real ‘Boogeyman’

June 23 — Every place has their urban legends, and Staten Island is no different. As a kid in the 80s, living in Staten Island you knew the urban legend of an escaped mental patient who lived in the tunnels under the old abandoned Willowbrook Mental Institution who would come out at night and snatch little children. Or at least, that’s what your parents told you so that you would behave.

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Film looks at tale of two terrorists after Al Qaeda

June 19 — “The Oath” opens with an uneasy video of a man with a bag over his head getting interrogated in Afganistan after 9/11. It’s one of those moments where it seems the inevitable may happen, but it doesn’t. The music is ominous, but the questions are more troublesome.

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‘Jonah Hex’ proves Hollywood fail

June 18 — Most experienced moviegoers would tell us younger generation movie watchers it has been decades since Hollywood produced a western film. After watching “Jonah Hex” it is impossible for us to disagree and destroys any attempt of an argument? What happens when you have mediocre actors, an inexperienced director and terrible writers? You get “Jonah Hex,” the hands-down worst film of the year.

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Team Smith remake surpasses original

June 11 — It’s been done. New kid moves in and gets his butt schooled in something he isn’t familiar. In 2006 it was “The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift;” in 2008 it was “Never Back Down” and “Kung Fu Panda.” Towards the end of the film the main character goes from being zero to hero and makes an incredible comeback to become the drift king, tournament champion or savior of the village. I know I’m missing a million other films that have a similar plot, but for me 1984’s “The Karate Kid” was the original.