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The 2012 Oscar-nominated short films offer something for everyone

Summer season suck: The 6 worst movies Hollywood crapped out this year

Spoiler alert: This is one of them.​We generally try not to let our hipster cynicism and pessimism override us here at Show and Tell, but there's no way around the truth of hindsight. Now that it's September, and the official Summer movie season is over, we know: The tentpole Summer movies of ... More >>

It's time to start playing our books

​Interactive texts have been around since the '70s (or earlier, depending on how you're defining them), but the recent push of handheld electronic reading devices has exploded the potential for creating and reimagining works. Still, it hasn't been until recently we've started seeing anyone mak ... More >>

Cars 2 is this week's most ridiculous trailer

​When a movie rakes in enough green, green, filthy money to necessitate a sequel, there's a pretty standard set of solutions studios employ to resolve the cognitive dissonance of basically repackaging the same movie -- the villain returns from hell, for example, or there's another mystery to s ... More >>

The 3DS brings the third dimension and other new release picks for this week March 22, 2010

​Ever since 3D was initially introduced to cinemas, people have complained about having to wear special glasses in order to enjoy the experience. Well, some people have complained, others just walk out of the theater vomiting all over their shoes. The glasses problem has been an issue for a lo ... More >>

Your antidote to the Charlie Sheen rant

​Charlie Sheen went on the radio and said some absurd things yesterday. Maybe you've heard. He really sailed off into crazy land this time, calling Thomas Jefferson a pussy and making some incoherent analogies involving him in his underwear strafing all his haters early in the morning. And fr ... More >>

Now's the time to see these Oscar-nominated short films

​Charlie Sheen went on the radio and said some absurd things yesterday. Maybe you've heard. He really sailed off into crazy land this time, calling Thomas Jefferson a pussy and making some incoherent analogies involving him in his underwear strafing all his haters early in the morning. And fr ... More >>

Flick Pick

​Charlie Sheen went on the radio and said some absurd things yesterday. Maybe you've heard. He really sailed off into crazy land this time, calling Thomas Jefferson a pussy and making some incoherent analogies involving him in his underwear strafing all his haters early in the morning. And fr ... More >>

Oscar nominations for Best Picture: 2011 vs. 2010

​The Academy Award nominations are out and they're pretty much what you expected: The King's Speech, Black Swan, The Social Network, etc. This is the second year of the expanded ten movie Best Picture category. And as these things go, the ten nominees are not a bad indication of what stuck wi ... More >>

The Sight of Silence

​The Academy Award nominations are out and they're pretty much what you expected: The King's Speech, Black Swan, The Social Network, etc. This is the second year of the expanded ten movie Best Picture category. And as these things go, the ten nominees are not a bad indication of what stuck wi ... More >>

The childish, funny, 3-D delights of Despicable Me

​The Academy Award nominations are out and they're pretty much what you expected: The King's Speech, Black Swan, The Social Network, etc. This is the second year of the expanded ten movie Best Picture category. And as these things go, the ten nominees are not a bad indication of what stuck wi ... More >>

In its third installment, Pixar's Toy Story juggernaut turns morose

​The Academy Award nominations are out and they're pretty much what you expected: The King's Speech, Black Swan, The Social Network, etc. This is the second year of the expanded ten movie Best Picture category. And as these things go, the ten nominees are not a bad indication of what stuck wi ... More >>

Five albums that should be made into movies instead of American Idiot

There are rumors floating around that the Tom Hanks owned Playtone production company may be discussing the possibilities of turning Green Day's American Idiot (the musical) into a movie. This is, without a doubt, the worst possible news we could feasibly imagine. We're picturing a kind of Garden ... More >>

Is the world ready for animated horror? Uh, that's rhetorical, right?

Is the world ready for blood splattering, zombies-eat-your-face type carnage delivered with a Pixar-like flair? We can't speak for the world, obviously, but, um, hell yeah, dude. And after seeing this unforgivably short teaser of A.D., the latest project penned by our old pal Haylar Garcia, Hippie W ... More >>

Ponyo

Is the world ready for blood splattering, zombies-eat-your-face type carnage delivered with a Pixar-like flair? We can't speak for the world, obviously, but, um, hell yeah, dude. And after seeing this unforgivably short teaser of A.D., the latest project penned by our old pal Haylar Garcia, Hippie W ... More >>

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Is the world ready for blood splattering, zombies-eat-your-face type carnage delivered with a Pixar-like flair? We can't speak for the world, obviously, but, um, hell yeah, dude. And after seeing this unforgivably short teaser of A.D., the latest project penned by our old pal Haylar Garcia, Hippie W ... More >>

Live review: AC/DC and The Answer at the Pepsi Center

Photo: Chad Fahnestock AC/DC and The Answer Pepsi Center November 25 The crowd at the Pepsi Center last night for AC/DC's first Denver concert in seven years resembled the ones that gather for Oakland Raiders games. It looked like everyone incarcerated at the state's prisons had been given a one- ... More >>

Leashed Lightning

Disney’s latest toon, Bolt, is a starry dog story

Recommended today at the Denver Film Festival: Waltz With Bashir

An image from Waltz With Bashir. A couple of weeks ago, I had a choice: either catch up on several hundred non-spam e-mails then clogging my inbox or attend a Denver Film Festival press screening of Waltz With Bashir, an autobiographical animated film by Israeli director Ari Folman about a horr ... More >>

The Commerce City Pizza Crop Circle: A Sign That Extraterrestrials Love Pepperoni?

An image from Waltz With Bashir. A couple of weeks ago, I had a choice: either catch up on several hundred non-spam e-mails then clogging my inbox or attend a Denver Film Festival press screening of Waltz With Bashir, an autobiographical animated film by Israeli director Ari Folman about a horr ... More >>

Papa John's Gets a Pizza the Action

An image from Waltz With Bashir. A couple of weeks ago, I had a choice: either catch up on several hundred non-spam e-mails then clogging my inbox or attend a Denver Film Festival press screening of Waltz With Bashir, an autobiographical animated film by Israeli director Ari Folman about a horr ... More >>

WALL-E

WALL-E blasts off to the future by boldly going where every sci-fi movie's gone before. And that's a good thing.

Beyond Playlist: The Long Blondes and More

WALL-E blasts off to the future by boldly going where every sci-fi movie's gone before. And that's a good thing.

Summer Movie Preview

The season of big budget bangs uses its brain.

Best New TV Theme Songs

The season of big budget bangs uses its brain.

Up and Coming

Our top DVD picks scheduled for release this week

An Update on the Rocky's John Lehndorff

Our top DVD picks scheduled for release this week

Ratatouille

Brad Bird does it again; health inspectors everywhere shaken to their core.

Randy Newman

Thursday-Saturday, January 11-13, Lincoln Center, Fort Collins, 1-970-221-6730.

Burning the Yule Log

Thursday-Saturday, January 11-13, Lincoln Center, Fort Collins, 1-970-221-6730.

Future Imperfect

Renaissance is black and white and a little dead all over.

Kickin' the Tires

Pixar's latest is no lemon, but it does have that used-Cars smell.

Pluck Off

That's not the sky falling, just Disney's Chicken Little.

Big Fun, Even Small

That's not the sky falling, just Disney's Chicken Little.

Comic Relief

It ain't quite Fantastic, but it'll do in a pinch.

Animal Crackers

In Madagascar, the wild things romp, then roam.

Looking Glass

Chihuly dazzles at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center.

Talkin' 'bot Love

Like Big Fish for little kids, Robots works hard to please everyone.

Print Master

Like Big Fish for little kids, Robots works hard to please everyone.

Super, Ordinary

These heroes may be Incredibles, but they're also normal.

Triple Your Pleasure

Funky and grotesque, The Triplets of Belleville will animate your world.

Flix Mix

Colorado filmmaking is alive and well

Think Distinct

This summer's movies could withstand the drought.

Water World

There's nothing fishy about Disney's new animated epic.

Making Radio Waves

Ira Glass tapes in Denver

Deep Freeze

Three mammals and a baby try to keep us warm in Ice Age.

See How They Run

Toy Story gets wound up for its second big-screen outing.

Of Gods and Demons

Japanese anime fans rejoice with the American release of Princess Mononoke.

Making a Mountain Out of an Anthill

Japanese anime fans rejoice with the American release of Princess Mononoke.

Building the Perfect Beast

Special-effects wizard Phil Tippett--creator of Starship Troopers' murderous bugs--envisions the digital future.