Forbidden Planet (Warner Bros.) Long available as faded discount product, Fred McLeod Wilcox’s 1956 masterpiece — the movie without which Star Trek, Star Wars, 2001, and, oh, Lost in Space wouldn’t exist — at last gets its proper due; this double-disc collection comes with everything but stardust and rocket fuel…
Final Fantasy is to role-playing games as the Yankees are to baseball. The series — now almost 20 years old — practically redefined the genre with Final Fantasy VII on the original PlayStation, the first console RPG that captured a mainstream audience in the States. But FF was a victim…
Brothers of the Head (IFC) Cary Grant: The Franchise Collection (Universal) CSI: The Complete Sixth Season (Paramount) Cream: Royal Albert Hall (Rhino) 49 Up (First Run) Friends: The Complete Series Collection (Warner Bros.) The Green Mile: Two-Disc Special Edition (Warner Bros.) Hate Crime (Image) He Changed Our World: Steve Irwin…
It has become obvious to me that we need to have a little heart-to-heart about what we put on our feet. Because if there’s anything The Cat’s Pajamas learned from reading Seventeen as kitten, it’s never neglect your shoes. An outfit without the proper footwear is a fate worse than…
Sometimes the art and fashion worlds collide — and they smacked together quite beautifully last Friday night at the Lower Highlands Fashion Show. Without even realizing it, Mona Lucero — namesake of the Mona Lucero boutique at 2544 15th Street and organizer of the show — presented a take on…
Alert: While in search of culottes (see below) be sure to hit Mona Lucero’s fashion show happening tonight, from 6:30 to 11 p.m. at her boutique, Mona Lucero, 2544 15th Street. Cat loves her place and her beautiful-but-accessible pieces. She can’t wait to see what’s going down the catwalk tonight…
No, Cat has not been napping. But what with the election and the four hours and three voting lines she stood in this week, she hasn’t been feeling all that perky and fashionable. Cat thought about sending in a front-line report of the sartorial style at St. Charles Rec Center…
Boulder has had first-rate restaurants for years — and lately, such eateries as Frasca Food & Wine and the Kitchen have brought the town national attention. Now an equally first-rate publicist is determined to further increase Boulder’s visibility. Kate Lacroix returned to town from New York two years ago and…
The thirtieth Starz Denver Film Festival (formerly the Denver International Film Festival) starts tonight at 7:30 p.m. at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House in the Denver Performing Arts Complex with a red-carpet screening of the Tamara Jenkins film The Savages, starring the lovable Laura Linney and the perpetually misanthropic Philip…
The Athena Festival was so named because “Goddess Festival” sounded a little too creepy, says founder Dana Cain. A few years ago, the Littleton woman was looking to create an event with meaning and depth — something spiritual, but not another dime-a-dozen psychic fair. Thus was born a fest celebrating…
Upper 15th Street is changing fast: Places like Lola and Karma opened in the last year, and the new Highland Bridge and long-awaited Vitamin Cottage are both about to. But in the midst of all that change, designer/boutique-owner and neighborhood veteran Mona Lucero has been keeping stride, stocking her shop’s…
It’s getting harder and harder for Denver audiences to see their hometown hero and Last Comic Standing winner Josh Blue, as he’s booked solid through June 2007, headlining rooms all over the nation. Sure, those glued to the city’s comedy scene can catch him every now and again when he…
Time perhaps scrambling it’s for Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu to stop his narratives. After making an exciting debut in 2000 with Amores Perros — a movie whose gimmicky Tarantino-esque tinkering with structure seemed fresher en español and grounded in gritty Mexico City location shooting — Gonzalez Iñarritu apparently decided to devote…
Pity Max Skinner, emasculated over his lamb chops. On a gray afternoon, at London’s hotspot du jour, his gloating superior unveils a plot to poach his most lucrative client, divesting him of a six-figure (pounds sterling) bonus in the process. Fuck it. The bummed-out bond trader hands in a resignation…
Once an actor gets big enough to take whatever kind of role he wants, it makes sense that the biggest stretch imaginable, given his current situation, is the part of a powerless man with no control over the world around him. Call it a “nice” movie — a vehicle designed…
Among documentary muckrakers, Kirby Dick may not be as righteously indignant as Michael Moore or as brilliantly droll as Nick Broomfield, but say this for the maker and star of This Film Is Not Yet Rated: He’s not afraid to soil his hands to get the story. Rummaging through the…
Fine-art videos have been playing a larger role in the contemporary realm in recent years, but I have a hard time understanding why. And a significant group exhibit with the clever title What Sound Does a Color Make? , on view through the weekend at the Center for Visual Art,…
John Matlack: Bridges, Fishes, and Boats
Of the various alternative spaces in Denver, Spark Gallery (900 Santa Fe Drive, 720-889-2200) has more than its share of established artists as members. Surely this explains why Spark is a flagship of the Santa Fe Arts District. It is one of only a handful of places along the row…
Breaking the Mold. In 2003, Connecticut collector Virginia Vogel Mattern donated some 300 pieces of contemporary American Indian art to the Denver Art Museum. For one of the special shows inaugurating the new Frederic C. Hamilton Building, Native Arts curator Nancy Blomberg has selected over a hundred works for the…
With its battered floors and bright galleries, the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art is an unusual venue for theater, but in some ways a very fitting one for Lee Kalcheim’s Defiled, or the Convenience of a Short-Haired Dog. In the first gallery — which you must pass through to reach…
The Big Bang. Sometimes it’s nice not to have to think too much, to just settle back and watch a couple of frenetically energetic guys working really hard to earn your good will — and your entertainment dollars. Oh, and to make you laugh. The Big Bang posits the following…
The Junky’s Christmas (Koch) They just aren’t cranking out claymation Christmas specials like they used to, which makes this a welcome one. Nicer still, it’s got heroin! A mixture of stop motion with a little puppetry and live-action shots of William Burroughs (who may himself have been a Muppet), this…
