After working a packed auditorium into a frenzy at last September’s premiere of Lords of Salem at the Toronto International Film Festival, Rob Zombie anxiously took his seat and watched his audience watch his film, his first independently financed feature. It’s also the first film he’s made following a messy…
Picking up a mere seven years after the previous installment, Scary Movie V features no original cast members, no Wayans brothers producing (they bailed after No. 3) and a new director (first-timer Malcolm D. Lee). It’s still terrible. Why, you may ask, does one even bother to review Scary Movie…
Entering the Robischon Gallery right now is like walking through the looking glass, so to speak. Inside are four shows, each of which posits the existence of a fantastic faux reality expressing individual parallel worlds. Creepy and weird — not to mention accomplished and elegant — are just some of…
Georgia O’Keeffe. Georgia O’Keeffe has been done to death — on greeting cards, calendars and posters. That’s why it’s easy to forget that in the first half of the twentieth century, she was one of America’s most significant early modernists. And with her husband, Alfred Stieglitz, she crusaded for the…
A big winner at last year’s SXSW, Adam Leon’s Gimme the Loot, about a couple of graffiti bombers aiming to gain fame by tagging the Mets’ Home Run Apple, runs on nothing but biodiesel personality. Malcolm (Ty Hickson) and Sofia (Tashiana Washington) are mates only in spraying, and they work…
The good news: Here’s a lavish, serious science-fiction picture, one that on occasion transcends big-budget hitmaking convention to glance against grandeur. Joseph Kosinski’s Oblivion, based on his own graphic novel, is one of those futuristic puzzlers whose dramatic energies are most invested not in the characters or their fates, exactly,…
It’s time, apparently, for the aging ghosts of ’60s radicalism to once again take stock of their sins and compromises. In The Big Chill and Running on Empty, during the Reagan ’80s, the then-middle-aged revolutionaries’ to-do list involved holding down careers and worrying about their kids; now the noble fist-wavers…
“Can you speak up a little, man? I dove off a boat yesterday, and I now have an immense amount of water in my ear!” Brady Corbet, 24, is on the phone from the Republic of Panama, where he’s filming a new movie opposite Benicio del Toro and Josh Hutcherson…
Buntport Theater Company put several peculiar messages on Facebook before A Knight to Remember opened. These implied that the theater group — known for the creative synergy of its members — was divided on this piece about Brian Colonna’s childhood fantasies of knighthood. Erik Edborg would not be involved, the…
We’ve had a few theatrical art lessons around here recently. And not so recently. Red, at Curious Theatre Company last year, revealed Mark Rothko’s genius, insecurity and narcissism as he bullied his assistant and gave urgent instructions about how he wanted his work viewed. Then there was the Miners Alley…
Half a year later, now on Blu-ray and DVD, Django Unchained is still kicking up shit, this time via cross-media trickle-down. TV’s LL Cool J, not long before declaring Confederate flag apparel A-OK with him, dared to express in “Accidental Racist” one hard-edged complaint about the life of a black…
Last week, America received two embarrassing reminders of its doting but asexual love for the Nonthreatening Black Man (NTBM). First, professional cowboy-hat-wearer Brad Paisley and Kangol connoisseur LL Cool J unintentionally trolled the entire Internet with “Accidental Racist,” a country song that argues that access to necklaces today totally makes…
Rampaging through the otherwise arid desertscape of contemporary Italian cinema, Matteo Garrone doesn’t want for ambition; he may be the premier chronicler of Berlusconi-era Italian culture, and its most muscular satirist. (That is, when Italian society isn’t busy outpacing satire altogether.) Reality, his followup to 2008’s Gomorrah, begins with a…
At any prior point in TV history, Rectify, a six-part drama on the Sundance channel, would be a shake-up-the-medium astonishment: A sober, even stately investigation into a curious kind of afterlife, that of a death-row inmate given freedom twenty years after his conviction. For all the finely crafted mysteries of…
Heavyweights of the local animation scene will gather tonight to show their work at the Denver Animated Pixelshow. Organized by Patrick Sheridan of the Emerging Filmmakers Project, Gio Toninelo of the GI Joe Fest and Dylan Otto Krider of the Ones and Zeros Pixelshow, the effort brings together some of…
While members of various subcultures, from MMJ patients to juggalos, mingle in Civic Center Park during today’s 4/20 event, vinyl geeks will be celebrating Record Store Day. Many will have been up all night waiting in line for their favorite music dispensary to open, dreams of the Flaming Lips’ Zaireeka…
Stoners, start your bongs. Now that weed is legal in Colorado, connoisseurs of the sweet leaf can be catered to in nearly the same style as wine and beer aficionados have been for years. To kick off this pot-culture trend, the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema is pairing the dope classic Half…
It’s difficult to tell who loves marijuana-themed shows more: comics or the comedy fans. The former get to dust off material they can’t use at “clean” shows, and the latter get to hear jokes tailored to their taboo habits. On the annual sacred stoner holiday, 4/20, comedy promotion team United…
Denver performance/movement company Control Group Productions continues its efforts to bring an international slate of touring avant-garde performance groups to town this weekend with the arrival of Lebanon-based Danish choreographer Jens Bjerregaard of Mancopy Danse Kompagni for a week-long residency at work|space. That residency includes a professional dance workshop and…
What would you do if a strange couple walked up to your door and asked to peek inside because one of them had supposedly grown up in the house? That’s just one of the questions you’ll still be pondering when The Ding Dongs (or What Is the Penalty in Portugal?)…
Light: It’s the most elemental characteristic of the art of photography. Without it, the magic of photographic imagery could never happen. Curator Conor King took the formative aspect of light in photography and ran with it, building a new group show, titled Phos: Light Today, that opens today at the…
Urban farmers are getting their hands around everything from chickens to bees to gardens, but to take the next step, they might want to check out aquaponics, a way of raising fish and plants in one sustainable place. To help educate people who want to do that in their own…
