Roald Dahl

Westword Book Club: Brandi Shigley focuses on the essential and eliminates the rest

This week, Westword asked fashionista Brandi Shigley about her favorite books. The interview was fittingly conducted in front of an adorable lofted book shelf, which Shigley refers to as her treehouse, at Fashion Denver, her combination boutique, studio, consulting office, and mini roller-s ... More >>

Camp still rules Tim Burton's Dark Shadows

Sucker Punch is this week's most ridiculous trailer

​If you can take anything from the eyeball-overload trailer of Sucker Punch, it's that the movie seems to hinge on some kind of dissociative-identity fantasy world: In order to overcome her real-life oppressors, a girl must first defeat the enemies in her own mind and learn some important less ... More >>

And presenting Ian Kleinman as Willy Wonka...

​I heard this week from Ian Kleinman -- our own personal Mr. Wizard, the man who brought molecular gastronomy to Westminster and blew the heads clean off almost everyone who was lucky enough to walk through the doors of O's Steak and Seafood when he was running his molecular gastronomy tastin ... More >>

Q&A with Elizabeth Zilman of Elizabeth & the Catapult

​Elizabeth & the Catapult is a Brooklyn-based trio playing the kind of jazz-inflected pop music that is simultaneously soothing and thought provoking. The act's debut album, Tall Children, bears favorable comparison to the more adventurous pop songwriters of recent years like Suzanne Vega and ... More >>

Coraline

Mystery Machine

Best Free Service

DVD rentals

Heavenly Hag

Emma Thompson's Nanny McPhee becomes a thing of beauty.

Fire Flies

The fourth Harry Potter rushes through its paces.

Chocolate Kisses

Thanks to Depp and Burton, Willy Wonka just got weirder.

Sour Lemony

Jim Carrey's in fine form, but the rest of Snicket is more unfortunate.

Flick Pick

Dr. Strangelove

Wordsmith

A game of artful dodgeball with Of Montreal.

Out There

NASA astronomer makes sense of the cosmos

Wonder Boy

Harry Potter's second adventure delights exactly like the first.

Toy story

The creators of Chicken Run find soul in a lump of clay.