By nearly all accounts, the New York City of the late ’70s and early ’80s was a complete shithole. Crime-ridden, rundown and sketchy as fuck, it was the kind of place where you didn’t want to find yourself alone late at night (or even in the middle of the day…
Next to the indelible image of Darth Vader, there’s nothing more iconic of the Star Wars mythos than John Williams’s stirring musical cues. From the booming main theme to the foreboding “Imperial March” and beyond, the music of Star Wars is as essential to the experience as ‘droids, Jedi and…
Art and science may seem like strange bedfellows, but the two fields cross over more often than most people imagine. Their intertwined relationship is the subject of Untitled 67: Chain Reaction, the latest installment in the Denver Art Museum’s Final Fridays series. “We took inspiration from our newly opened Western…
Kirk Hanna was a cattle rancher, a conservationist and a Colorado legend before his untimely death at age 43. His pursuit of a utopian vision for the ranching way of life, and his impact on open-space preservation and resource management, are just part of the story told in Hanna Ranch,…
Some things are just too good to be true, like a Dune film starring Mick Jagger, Salvador Dalí, Orson Welles and David Carradine, directed by cult-film legend Alejandro Jodorowsky, with effects and art by Mœbius, H.R. Giger and Dan O’Bannon. Such a thing is clearly too awesome to exist, but…
If you were born after, say, 1980 and/or you didn’t grow up as a huge geek, you probably have no idea that, for a brief time, RPG hysteria was a very real thing. That’s right, for five or six years in the early to mid-’80s (and probably to this day…
Some things are just too good to be true, like a Dune film starring Mick Jagger, Salvador Dalí, Orson Welles and David Carradine, directed by cult-film legend Alejandro Jodorowsky, with effects and art by Mœbius, H.R. Giger and Dan O’Bannon. Such a thing is clearly too awesome to exist, but…
Kirk Hanna was a cattle rancher, a conservationist and a Colorado legend before his untimely death at age 43. His pursuit of a utopian vision for the ranching way of life and his impact on open-space preservation and resource management are just part of the story told in Hanna Ranch,…
Some films are just meant to be seen on the big screen, but apart from a handful of cult classics and genre favorites, opportunities to do so can be few and far between. Denver’s Landmark Theatre chain is looking to change that with “A Film for All Seasons,” a 24-week…
This week, Denver residents have a rare opportunity to see the genesis and current pinnacle of the kaiju genre with showings of both the original 1954 Japanese classic Godzilla (at the Sie FilmCenter) and the brand-new iteration (screening pretty much everywhere else movie tickets are sold). The original is better…
If you’ve ever wanted to own an action-figure version of yourself, Geekshow II is your chance to make that happen. “We’re bringing a full-body 3-D scanning booth that we built,” says Mar Williams, chair of the Concoctory Hackerspace. “You stand on a turntable and it rotates you around, and we…
Forget its reputation: There is no way that Plan 9 from Outer Space is the worst movie ever made. I know this for a fact, because I have seen dozens, maybe as many as a hundred, movies that are much, much worse. It’s not even the worse movie in its…
The power our phones have over us is scary. We stare at them constantly. They contain huge amounts of sensitive, personal data. They can be used to track us. It’s not much of a stretch to imagine them taking things a step further and becoming downright deadly. That’s the premise…
Everyone loves Batman. The world’s greatest detective has managed to become the world’s most popular superhero over the course of his 75-year existence, all without any actual superpowers. Along the way, his bravery, his mission and his ability to hang with heroes who can throw cars around like toys have…
Everyone loves Batman. The world’s greatest detective has managed to become the world’s most popular superhero over the course of his 75-year existence, all without any actual superpowers. Along the way, his bravery, his mission and his ability to hang with the heroes who can literally throw cars around like…
I thought I was done with Star Wars. I really did. While I can’t deny that Star Wars was my first geek love, as it was for nearly every kid of my generation, our relationship has been rocky for almost fifteen years now, since the release of The Phantom Menace…
For the first time ever, May the Fourth — aka Star Wars Day — falls on the same weekend as the annual StarFest convention, which is pulling out all the stops this year. “As far as I know, StarFest is the biggest Star Wars Day celebration between the two coasts,”…
Celebrate the geeky side of life all weekend at the third annual May the Fourth Be With You. As in past years, organizer Dan Landes and his partners have lined up a slate of geek-friendly fun that’s a little different than the typical con experience, but just as accessible to…
May is here, and let’s hope you geeks like Star Wars. This month is packed with events tied to everyone’s favorite franchise set in a galaxy far, far away since May 4 — as in May the Fourth be with you, because geeks love puns — is a Star Wars…
If you’re scoring a modern silent film about ancient eldritch horrors, you’re going to need to do something a little different. An organ isn’t going to get it done; a piano is right out. Even a full orchestra, for all its dynamic range and variety of timbre, isn’t going to…
Games have been good to me. I’ve been playing games, in one form or another, since before I started school. Board games, card games, video games, you name it, I love them all. In the grand scheme of pop-cultural pursuits, I consider games to be the equal of any other…
Tonight at the world-famous Stanley Hotel, the Stanley Film Festival will kick off its second year with Alexandre O. Philippe’s look at zombie culture, Doc of the Dead. [Disclosure: I appear in Doc of the Dead.] Sunday, the fest closes with the horror comedy What We Do in the Shadows,…
