Being a reality TV standby best known for getting kicked off his first gig on MTV’s Road Rules: South Pacific for attacking a black co-star with widely speculated racist motivations is not exactly the most admirable thing to be known for, but this weekend, Abram Boise managed to shit all…
It’s probably safe to say that your worldly possessions won’t be destroyed in an apocalypse on December 21, 2012 (659 days from this publication date, if you weren’t counting), as professed by conspiracy theorists cashing in on the end of the Mayan calendar. And 2012: The True Mayan Prophecy, a…
In The Adjustment Bureau, screenwriter George Nolfi’s directorial debut (an extremely loose adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s 1954 short story “Adjustment Team”), Matt Damon plays David Norris, a Brooklyn-born, bar-fight-prone congressman rocketing to the front of a Senate race apparently on the strength of his charisma and the idealism of…
Ink still wet on his MIT degree, Matt Franklin (Topher Grace) is back in hometown Los Angeles, waiting for his future to clarify itself while he loiters behind the counter at Suncoast Video, hawking VHSes of Harry and the Hendersons because it’s, like, totally 1988. Inspiration comes when Matt re-encounters…
Though it’s set in rural Ireland in 1965, John B. Keane’s The Field, now playing at the Denver Vic, tells a universal story about land — at least on one level. Bull McCabe has been farming a few acres for several years — fencing, tearing out weeds, fertilizing –until the…
Is it time to already begin thinking about next year’s Academy Awards show? Well, if you’re like most Americans — and critics, the venerable Roger Ebert among them — who watched last night’s show, then the answer is “yes.” The hipster hosts, 28-year-old Anne Hathaway and 32-year-old James Franco, didn’t…
Last night, Hollywood engaged in its yearly back-pat, bestowing little gold statues on those who brought the greatest dignity to the big screen last year. Amidst all that pomp and circumstance, it can be easy to forget that, as amazing as Natalie Portman was in Black Swan, she was also…
A century ago, mutton chops were worn by all manner of men, from presidents to peasants. But they’ve fallen out of popular fashion, and now a contemporary wearer of these triangular pieces of facial hair carries with him a sense of roughness and an appearance of paying homage to the…
If we learned anything from Akeelah and the Bee, it’s that spelling bees can be pretty exciting, even if the subject matter is boring — who nedes speling anyway? That shit is for lossers. It’s the do-or-die elimination format that give the bee its drama, and tonight, Poetry Out Loud…
David Fincher has made a name for himself by giving audiences cerebral stories with a penchant to wash out color as often as possible. His latest film was the universally applauded Social Network, but before he wowed the critics he won over the common people with some of the best…
While the rest of America was at home watching the film establishment’s glitzy annual circle jerk, where it elaborately congratulates itself on a year of acceptable filmmaking, my girlfriend and I were in an otherwise empty Chez Artist watching one of the worst indie films I expect to see this…
“Happy birthday” is not an unusual phrase. Most people hear it often, at work or at home or in passing or whenever else they are near someone celebrating the anniversary of their parturition. One of improv’s most famous characteristics, one of its most celebrated, is its ability to take lackluster…
Breckenridge local Eric Willett finished second behind Norwegian Aleksander Ostreng at the Burn River Jump contest this weekend in Livigno, Italy, part of the Swatch Ticket to Ride (TTR) World Snowboard Tour. Willett’s on fire, and it’s not just all those Italian fireworks: He won the Toyota Championships at Snowbasin,…
In terms of reasons to justify what some negative Nancies would call your “excessive drinking” but you would call your “spirit of festivity,” February has been a pretty lean month, leaving you with little to toast to but the bitter disenchantment of a life mostly squandered — not that it’s…
The best part of the annual Academy Awards is arguably the red-carpet fashion, and this year, stars were showcasing a variety of couture gowns. Bright reds and tangerines dominated the pre-Oscar parade, with some purple trimming and light, ethereal dresses to counterbalance the rich palette. There were hits, misses and…
There are a lot of things more important than watching and liveblogging the 2011 Academy Awards – but none of them are things we have to do today. Look for our recap after the show!…
Is that a suspiciously shaped tendon, Jesus, or are you just happy to see us? A tad nonplussed at the photo (above) the Denver Post ran today on page 14D of Rebecca Vaughan and Peter Illig’s “Celestial Navigation” — part of the artist’s Displaced show at Ice Cube Gallery, which…
If you’re a real Denver old-timer, you might remember the Third Eye, a brave little independent theater that operated out of a second-floor loft at Second and Broadway by local theater pioneers Joey and June Favre. It was a funky little space with black walls, plush red chairs pirated from…
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 frankly, the…
Best Supporting Actress nominee Amy Adams was your typical senior in the tiny town of Castle Rock, Colorado. Before graduating from Douglas County High School in 1992, Adams may have hung out at these spots in Castle Rock, now a city of more than 44,000…
What’s a secondary art market? It’s a sale of works that have been sold before and are back on the market. The advantage of buying these pre-owned works, from the collector’s point of view, is the clear picture it gives for a work’s resale value and present worth in the…
In Drive Angry, Nic Cage plays a man who broke out of hell to make things right, and now he’s got one last chance at redemption. Now, read that last sentence again in the gravelly voice of the “In a world… guy and note that Nic Cage also drives a…
