It’s to the great detriment of The Kings of Summer that it follows the identically premised Mud by just weeks. Both films tell bittersweet coming-of-age stories about teenage friends who learn how to become men in a soon-to-be-corrupted Eden, and both are questionably embellished by a predictable teen romance, an…
Treating teenage growing pains with a sensitivity that frequently trips into singer-songwriter-ish mushiness, Tiger Eyes nonetheless stands as a respectable first cinematic adaptation of a Judy Blume novel. Directed and co-written by the author’s son, Lawrence, Blume’s tale follows fifteen-year-old Davey (Willa Holland, right) as she relocates, in the wake…
There was a time when many young people believed they could levitate the Pentagon by surrounding it, holding hands and chanting; dissuade a soldier from killing by placing a flower in the barrel of his gun; and put an end to war, corruption, racism, repression and pollution through nakedness, love-making…
George R. R. Martin took a break from killing Starks today to send us this list of the notes he would send to the producers of TV shows if he were put in charge of them. Here’s what he dashed off for us, in between shouting descriptions of imaginary feasts…
Superman is an idea. Okay, fine. Technically he’s an intellectual property—a set of data points slammed together by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster in the 1930s, sold for $130 to National Allied Publications (later DC Comics/TimeWarner), and subsequently transformed into a nugget of multivariously exploitable content that has netted entertainment…
Anyone trying to run a civilized country should know that throwing musicians in jail for making music is always a bad idea. That didn’t stop Vladimir Putin’s government from arresting three members of the punk collective Pussy Riot, after the group stormed the altar of the Cathedral of Christ the…
Eager young people can’t find jobs; qualified older people can’t find jobs. There’s nothing funny about that, which is exactly why someone ought to be making comedies about it. The Internship, in which downtrodden old-school salespeople Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson enter the 21st century and land internships at Google,…
Burlesque queen and pinup model Bettina May has always been into the vintage pinup look. “I do a really authentic 1940s-1950s style at shows, and I always got asked how I get that look,” she says. But since “you can’t really describe that” at a show, May launched Bettina May’s…
The Sie FilmCenter’s Hey Girl! series generally caters to women by combining a happy-hour shmooze with a slate of chick flicks. But tonight’s installment, happening — perhaps pointedly — in the wake of Denver Comic Con, targets a slightly narrower female special-interest group: women who also like comics. And movies…
Last week, EW columnist Mark Harris tweeted a statistic disturbing to anyone who cares about gender equality on the big screen: “It’s now been 61 days since the last wide release of a major studio movie starring a woman.” Unfortunately, that number will only increase—to 84 days—until Sandra Bullock and…
Judy Blume’s first novel, The One in the Middle is the Green Kangaroo, was published in 1969, yet it’s only now, 44 years later, that the first big-screen adaptation of her work—Tiger Eyes, based on 1981’s novel of the same name—finally opens in theaters. This is a disgrace. One can…
For artist Gemma Bayly, the mandala is a key to self-awareness that inspires an infinite mirroring of life energies, as tied to metaphysics as it is to quantum physics. The intricate, penciled mandalas featured in Bayly’s solo show Mirrors, which opens today at Hinterland Art Space, are evidence of this:…
The comedians performing in The Duel: An Improv Cagematch may not be fighting to the death, but they are fighting to stay alive into the next round of this improvisational showdown, which pits two comedy teams against each other every Saturday night at the Voodoo Comedy Playhouse. “Each team is…
Yes, there will be pro Halo players and fanatical Street Fighter fans jockeying for the top spots at today’s C3 Fighter Frenzy Campus Tour — but even if gamers only touch their PlayStations when it’s time to belt out “Don’t Stop Believin’” for Rock Band, they’ll find something to love…
First Class Fashionista maven Lonza Dennis had a personal stake in mind when she put together tonight’s Denver Paint the Runway at the Denver Art Society. “My two oldest daughters excelled in math,” she begins. “My youngest struggled throughout high school, but she was a talented artist. She had been…
Just like a summer blockbuster film, the open-entry exhibition Let’s Pretend We’re Robots, opening tonight at Good Thieves Press, is meant to be a double dip of summer fun. But it’s completely serious, too, notes Good Thieves member Corrina Espinosa. “We genuinely love robots, and we are not the only…
The LIDA Project was named for a Soviet device that was supposedly capable of manipulating human brain-waves through the use of low-frequency radio, and for nearly two decades, this innovative theater company has offered productions that often incorporate technology in unusual ways. It latest effort is a modernized version of…
After more than 25 years in the comedy industry, Dave Attell has witnessed a lot of changes. “Everyone’s on camera today,” says the comic, who worked with the best in the New York club scene before improvising on the streets with his bar-hopping travel show, Insomniac. “Everyone wants to be…
The complexities of human relationships weave a tangled web. Director Betsy Tobin has always been fascinated by interpersonal inter-action, and her newest performance, METAPHOR, uses strong visual metaphors to delve into the patterns that occur between people in love. “I’ve always been kind of fascinated by just how intricate human…
“Over hill, over dale, thorough bush, thorough brier/Over park, over pale, thorough flood, thorough fire/I do wander everywhere….” Take it from A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Exercise and Shakespeare go together. The Denver Botanic Gardens and Theatre-Hikes Colorado will prove it this summer with their second season of themed Sunset Strolls…
Treating teenage growing pains with a sensitivity that frequently trips into singer-songwriter-ish mushiness, Tiger Eyes nonetheless stands as a respectable first cinematic adaptation of a Judy Blume novel. Directed and co-written by the author’s son, Lawrence, Blume’s tale follows fifteen-year-old Davey (Willa Holland) as she relocates, in the wake of…
Montbello High School’s drumline will be flying high next week, when its members take one of the first Dreamliner trips to Tokyo in order to visit Denver’s sister city of Takayama, Japan. In preparation for the trip, on Saturday the students went through an orientation organized by the Japan Exchange…
