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Photos: Ten hit movies filmed in Colorado

Yesterday, as part of our continuing look at Hollywood-Colorado connections (including posts featuring the ten best movies filmed in Colorado and ten memorable flicks set in Colorado but not filmed here), we compiled ten Hollywood movie misses filmed in our fair state. Today, we've flipped the scrip ... More >>

The ten most awkward teens in pop culture

Nerd. Geek. Dork. By whatever name, these poor, unfortunate souls with bad haircuts, unflattering clothes and few social graces are everywhere. Especially pop culture. Few films have captured the ideal of the awkward, disastrously uncool teen like Todd Solondz's Welcome to the Dollhouse, in the char ... More >>

Videos of 2013's biggest snowstorm to date: Dogs, cats, Napoleon Dynamite, snow bongs

What to do when you're trapped inside by Denver's biggest snowstorm of 2013? Make and share weird-ass videos, of course! We've collected the strangest from the last white, lumpy day, including clips of dogs romping, cats pussyfooting, dudes turning skateboards into snowboards, a man playing with a t ... More >>

The best concerts in Denver this weekend

YO GABBA GABBA! @ PARAMOUNT THEATRE | SUN, 2/24/13 Sesame Street couldn't handle mixing kids' programming with Katy Perry cleavage, but Yo Gabba Gabba! gets it right every time. Perhaps it's because one of the show's creators, Christian Jacobs, is MC Bat Commander of the Aquabats. After becoming a f ... More >>

Moovers and Shakers 2012: Backbeat writers praise the year's best local albums

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Ten weird movie references to Colorado

We've all experienced that moment of recognition when a character in a movie suddenly makes a reference to Colorado. But which of these nods qualifies as the strangest? In an effort to find out, we visited Drew's Script-O-Rama -- and a search for Colorado, plus some investigation, turned up quirky l ... More >>

The twenty best bicycle scenes in cinema, ever

With rare exceptions for the Smart Car, the tandem bike and whatever those contraptions are in the Dr. Seuss books, the human evolutionary process basically stopped when mankind progressed from two legs to two wheels. If you need proof of the superiority of the cycle, look no further than film, wher ... More >>

With Blue Like Jazz, Steve Taylor takes a provocative and realistic look at Christianity

With Blue Like Jazz, the screen adaptation of Donald Miller's New York Times best-selling book, Steve Taylor has done for film exactly what he did for music in the early to mid '80s -- namely, giving the staid world of Christian-centric art a much needed jolt of vitality. In the same way he riled th ... More >>

Willow, the prodigal cat: Where we suspect she spent her five lost years

Willow the cat.​Meet Willow, a six-year-old calico who has gained five years, one and a half pounds and surprisingly little gray hair since she was lost from her Broomfield home half a decade ago, somehow not eaten by coyotes and discovered Wednesday in the Big Apple. To be clear, that's roug ... More >>

Top Five Rebecca Black Disses

​By now, you've heard "Friday," right, that horrendous Rebecca Black song? Although we firmly believe it is an abomination, we are super-psyched to not only have something new to make fun of, but we are now able to relish Rebecca Black's career-demise and observe in the vast, demented glory th ... More >>

Yo Gabba Gabba!

Sunday, November 7, 1STBANK Center, 303-830-8497.

Leslie & the LY's

Monday, March 15, Larimer Lounge, 303-291-1007.

The Foot Fist Way

Tae kwon do comedy The Foot Fist Way stars a truly cringe-tastic Danny McBride.

Paranoid Park

Gus Van Sant returns to disaffected youth and shoestring budgets in Paranoid Park.

Delegating Denver #16 of 56: Idaho

Rocket Science

Is this high school coming-of-ager quirky for good or evil? The answer’s...debatable.

Breathe Carolina

Marquis Theater

Men Behaving Badly

Bad Santa meets Napoleon Dynamite in this tepid man-child comedy.

Smoked Out

The ash holes on Governor Owens's team.

Tortilla Flat

Nacho's funnier than Napoleon, which isn't saying much.

Village Inn

Sobering thoughts on the verge of marriage.

This Time, It's Serious

Easy Out

The Benchwarmers put a zero on the board.

For Pete's Sake

Girls want boyfriends with skills. Good thing Efren Ramirez can deejay.

Wanted

After a local scandal made them stand down, Army recruiters work to put more boots on the ground.

Death Warmed Over

Romance is alive -- and dead -- in Just Like Heaven.

Off Limits

Swept Under the Rugby

Flick Pick

Boulder Outdoor Cinema

Captured by Gypsies

Queenie and the Jester take a ride.

Westword Music Showcase 2005

What's So Funny

Leaning Sideways

In a year when small movies came up big, picking the top ten was a Payne.

Green Achers

Undertow pulls in the pain and beauty of a reclusive Southern family.

Sa-weet!

Deadpan irony is the rule in this triumphant high school geek comedy.

The Hard Sell

Local filmmaker Shane Carruth won Sundance's top honor. So...now what?