Based on historical events, The Pitmen Painters tells the story of a group of miners in a small town near Northumberland who sign up for an art-appreciation class taught by art historian Robert Lyon. When the men show no interest in his slides, Lyon realizes that having them create their…
“All you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun” goes Jean-Luc Godard’s quip. Add to that a few more girls and their bikinis, and you have the rough formula for Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers, which looks like the most expensive Girls Gone Wild video ever made…
Luther (Netflix Link) Golden Globe winner and impossible-handsomeness standard-bearer Idris Elba is Detective Chief Inspector John Luther, a brilliant investigator with a complete inability to detach from the darkness of his work. In the pilot, he investigates chilling psychopath Alice Morgan, played by Ruth Wilson — he knows, but cannot…
“This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” So goes the adage from John Ford’s 1962 classic The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and so it has gone for Heaven’s Gate, the class-war Western written and directed by one of Ford’s truest disciples among contemporary…
“The idea is that ultimately, there is something interesting to be celebrated about every woman in the community,” says Evan Weiss-man, organizer of tonight’s “The Reconstructionists: Celebrating Badass Women and Community Scrapbooking.” Men and women of all ages are invited to enjoy snacks and craft stories of important women in…
Battling the “softer sex” stereotype is the name of the game at “Full Contact,” tonight’s opening slot of the 2013 Feminism & Co. lecture series. The gathering will pair the Rocky Mountain Rollergirls with sports scholar Sarah Fields, aikido practitioner Harmony Hammond, and L.A. Jennings, an MMA fighter and trainer…
Though the U.S. Men’s National Team has gone to the FIFA World Cup every year since 1990, it has never been an easy road. That road will wind through Denver today when the U.S. plays Costa Rica in the second of ten World Cup qualifying games on the way to…
The women of the Denver Roller Dolls suit up tonight for the opening bout of roller derby season, a Saturday-night double-header pitting the Electrocuties against Bruising Altitude and the Orange Crushers against the Shotgun Betties. Once a drama-driven, choreographed show, roller derby has transformed into a full-fledged sport, and year…
Craft beer and snowboarding seem like a perfect pairing, but the two industries hadn’t gotten together all that much before this winter. That changed, though, as craft brewers around the state began teaming up with skiing and snowboarding companies, events and re-sorts. The latest, and possibly biggest, blowout will take…
We haven’t heard much from Chris Tucker in the last few years. After his arresting performances in Friday, The Fifth Element and the Rush Hour franchise, he took an extended break from Hollywood, only recently reviving his name in celebrity circles with a role in the Oscarific Silver Linings Playbook…
First gaining national attention in 2006 with his Senior Youth Correspondent appearances on The Daily Show, Demetri Martin has developed a multi-layered persona that includes both long-form, TEDTalks-style commentaries, and Mitch Hedberg-inspired micro-jokes aided by a guitar, a harmonica, and a few campy visual aides. One of the most unusual…
Denver film fans can officially start their love affair with the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema today when the theater kicks things off with its grand-opening event, An Evening With Pam Grier. It’s a great way to introduce the Drafthouse brand to local cinemaphiles, infusing the chain’s embrace of genre film and…
Since 2004, The SFJazz Collective has been taking the classic work of musicians like Ornette Colman, John Coltrane and Thelonius Monk and reinterpreting it for modern audiences. This time around, the international collective of celebrated musicians is putting the music of Chick Corea through its sophisticated machinery. “Making something that…
The Stanley Hotel, the historic and supposedly haunted lodge in Estes Park that inspired Stephen King’s The Shining, has always embraced its association with the chilling story, even if it wasn’t actually used as the set for the 1980 Stanley Kubrick film of the same name. So there’s no creepier…
Since her suicide half a century ago, Sylvia Plath has been the subject of many biographies, a Hollywood movie starring Gwyneth Paltrow, and even a song by alt-country rocker Ryan Adams. But Carl Rollyson’s new book, American Isis: The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath, takes a different approach to…
In 1988, the fate of Chile and its dictator came down to a ballot as simple as a middle-schooler’s Do-you-like-me? note. A referendum, demanded by international pressure, offered citizens a simple choice: a “yes” for allowing President Augusto Pinochet to return to office for another eight years, or a “no”…
In an age of increased cynicism about the supernatural, Source Theatre Company has assembled a series of stories by authors who bring sincere tales of spirituality to life. In the Presence of God, which was two years in the making, includes seven vignettes that touch on issues of body image,…
Adrienne Rinaldi writes a beer blog (beersnobchick.com), and when she got her yoga certification last June, she started teaching yoga in the park. “I noticed that I’d attract people if I had beer,” she says, “and people in Colorado love their beer and their yoga — so why not combine…
Fashion is cyclical and moves in and out in waves. For example, the looks of the 1990s are making a fashion comeback in 2013. For visual evidence, look no further than Monique Trejo, an Austin native and Colorado transplant who takes inspiration from the feminist punk-rock movement, riot grrrl, and…
For this week’s art review, Michael Paglia visited RedLine to take in a group show celebrating the city-wide Month of Photography. The show, titled The Reality of Fiction, tackles the notion that photos can fool the eye, making them both true depictions of reality and false ones. With only a…
Comedian Mara Wiles hasn’t had it easy the last few years. After establishing herself as an intelligently goofy performer on the local comedy scene, she was diagnosed with a potentially life-threatening kidney disorder that, to say the least, interrupted her ascending career as a standup. And Denver’s comedy community, which…
Dedicated fans and curious cinephiles alike don’t have much longer to wait — the Denver area’s own Alamo Drafthouse Cinema is opening in a matter of days. The storied theater chain officially kicks things off Monday, March 25, with a grand-opening event honoring Pam Grier, who grew up in Denver;…
