Celluloid Dreams

The Real American Girl

By Michael Roberts
Jul 3, 2008

Let’s get one thing straight: American Girl -- the inspiration for Kit Kittredge: An American Girl, the just-released movie starring Abigail Breslin -- is a product. It’s a company. It’s a money-making enterprise. It’s owned by Mattel now. That alone speaks volumes. What it’s not is the sum total of...
Carrie's Fashionable Evolution

By Aubrey Shoe
Jun 6, 2008

Click to View Slide Show Before you head out to catch the Sex and the City movie for the third time this weekend, take a look back at some of Carrie Bradshaw's more memorable fashion moments. For a few more of Carrie's looks, check out Rossy's previous blog...
Flirty, Sex-y, Money

By Aubrey Shoe
Jun 2, 2008

Apparently, Harrison Ford isn’t the only movie star who just seems to get sexier with age. Movie theaters all across Denver (probably the country) were sold out to hundreds of Sex-crazed fans, all dressed to the nines this Friday. According to the Los Angeles Times, Sex and the City opened...
Carrie Bradshaw: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

By Aubrey Shoe
May 29, 2008

Although this look would probably fly in Aspen, it makes me glad that Denver isn't as trendy as New York and the women here know better than to wear mangled fur with bad boots and a top knot. I do have to defend this with the fact it was from...
Cougar Bait Worthy of Sex and the City

By Aubrey Shoe
May 28, 2008

This piece of bait is named Phil. Phil is not just pretty, he’s also functional. For example - can’t find your cheese grater? Try Phil’s stomach. It’s just that easy. Phil will be out and about this weekend, so go fetch, ladies! (You’re welcome.)...
The Men of Sex and the City

By Aubrey Shoe
May 27, 2008

With the long weekend over and only three days to go until Sex and the City opens on the big screen, let the countdown to a fun, fashionable weekend begin. Visit The Cat's Pajamas every day through Friday for musings on the women and men of Sex and the City...
Being Michael Madsen Is A Chore

By Sean Cronin
Nov 19, 2007

Festival audiences are generally more generous than traditional theatrical crowds. It's a double-edged sword. Some films that will never see the light of day, or the darkness of theatrical release, find audiences who are willing to set aside their critical opinions and just enjoy a film for mere competence of...
Screening Tonight at the Starz Denver Film Festival

By Sean Cronin
Nov 15, 2007

You've got nothing to do tonight, right? Skip another night of must-see TV and head over to the best Denver cultural event of the year, the Denver Film Festival. We've compiled some reviews and profiles of filmmakers and suggest, if you can, that you check out one of the following...
Festival Dailies: The Memory Thief

By Sean Cronin
Nov 15, 2007

The Memory Thief Director: Gil Kofman It's going to take a long time to digest this film. For me, the entire experience was thrown off by the woman in front of offering information on her colonoscopy to no one in particular. Shortly after that, Songbird, the short film from director...
Film Festival Profiles: Iron Ladies of Liberia

By Sean Cronin
Nov 15, 2007

Iron Ladies of Liberia Directors: Daniel Junge and Siatta Scott-Johnson When Denver-based documentary director Daniel Junge and producer Henry Ansbacher first contacted newly elected Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf (who, among other degrees, received a masters in economics from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1970), they were told their...
Film Festival Profile: Last Hat In Town

By Sean Cronin
Nov 14, 2007

Last Hat in Town Director: Zachary Fink Remaining showtime: 12:30 p.m., Sunday, November 18 Told through the stories of three men with three unique and intimiate ties to the rugged business of oil and gas extraction in the Rocky Mountain West, director Zachary Fink's documentary Last Hat in Town uses...
Film Festival Profile: Skills Like This

By Sean Cronin
Nov 13, 2007

The world's worst writer has had enough. Tormented by the knowledge that he will never make it as a playwright, he abandons his primary passion for a more lucrative trade at which he finds he has a natural talent: Robbing banks. And this spur-of-the-moment act of desperation changes his life...
Film Festival Profile: Mountain Town

By Sean Cronin
Nov 12, 2007

Mountain Town Director: Brendan Kiernan and Frank Pickell Cinematographer: Jasper Gray Show times: Monday, November 12, 6:15 p.m.; Wednesday, November 14, 8:30 p.m.; Sunday, November 18, 5:30 p.m. Pick path, pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, and the universe will conspire with you to make things happen. Even...
Denver Film Festival Dailies: End of the Line

By Sean Cronin
Nov 12, 2007

OK, there are some weird signs that things in the world aren’t right. And a group of religious fanatics pointing to those signs. And a subway train. Plus, of course, a small group of “normal” people just trying to get home. Add these together, add some cheap blood and gore,...
Denver Film Festival Dailies: Oswald's Ghost

By Sean Cronin
Nov 12, 2007

The JFK assassination is probably the best-covered event in pre-9/11 American history and the documentary Oswald’s Ghost is director Robert Stone's another take on it. As documentaries go, it’s fairly entertaining, but it lacks a strong message or narrative thrust. It builds a case that Oswald could have done it...