Director Joseph Kahn (who cowrote the script with actual battle rapper Alex “Kid Twist” Larsen), a man who directed many a hip-hop video in his time, knows exactly what cliches and tropes need to be mocked
By and large, this latest entry in Lisbeth’s adventures … offers a drab genre piece that’s more like an attempt to establish a James Bond-like franchise for Lisbeth than a compelling exploration of the character
Denver Film Festival artistic director Brit Withey talks about his must-see pick for November 7, Another Day of Life.
An independent film crew follows an outlaw’s quest for gold inThe Great Divide.
… The Great Buster at heart is an opportunity to hang with Bogdanovich as he screens favorite sequences from ol’ stone face’s 1920s two- and five-reel masterpieces
… This is less a film about Gary Hart — who, as played by Jackman, remains something of an enigma — than one about the operatives and volunteers and journalists swirling around his candidacy
Denver Film Festival artistic director Brit Withey’s must-see pick for November 6 is ULAM: Main Dish. This is why.
The Denver Film Festival’s first weekend was filled with movies that ranged from failed to fascinating.
It documents with an incisive drabness the group sessions, garbled sermons and general shoddiness of Love in Action, the program that 19-year-old Jared (Lucas Hedges) gets enrolled in by his parents, played by Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe
Denver Film Festival artistic director Brit Withey highlights The World Before Your Feet, a documentary about a man who spends years walking every block of New York City, as his must-see pick for November 5, 2018.
Denver Film Festival artistic director Brit Withey names his must-see picks for films screening at the event November 2 to 4, including Pity, Behind the Curve and Cold War.
The Denver Film Festival’s decision to launch its 41st edition on Halloween avoided disaster thanks in part to its opening night film, The Favourite.
Denver Film Festival artistic director Brit Withey touts The Wolf House, an animated film from Chile, as the must-see pick for November 1, 2018.
Denver Film Festival artistic director Brit Withey previews the 41st edition of the Mile High City staple as well as the opening night selection, The Favourite.
Despite being built based on Welles’s notes and the input of people who were in front of and behind the camera on set, this The Other Side of the Wind has a haphazard “well, he shot it, so we better include it” vibe
It’s one of those biopics where everything significant that happened to a famous person happens all at once, in the couple of seconds of any given year that we see dramatized
Footage of Studio life — the lavish lights, the Broadway-style props and performance numbers, the heaving mass of beautiful people — plays here mostly in chaotic montage, with few shots related to the one coming next
The more prickly and belligerent Israel becomes — and McCarthy never burdens her with likability — the more Holofcener and Whitty soften her choices with extenuating circumstances, imbuing their subject with a zeal for artistic purity at odds with her actions
There are some evergreen horror concepts, where the bare bones of the story are strong enough that they can be adapted and made over in multiple generations to express whatever fears and frustrations of the times in which they’re made
A Denver screening of a movie about the Wax Trax stores and record label will include appearances by outsider-music icons Jello Biafra, Al Jourgensen and Groovie Mann.
Called back into active duty after a cyberattack reveals the identities of all current MI7 agents, the decidedly out-of-date English uses his old-school knowledge to track down Volta and unplug him from the world’s power grid
… This new Sabrina dives headlong into the dark, weird truths that smart kids — and alarmed evangelicals — always assumed ruled the life of America’s favorite teenage witch, her sorcerous aunts and her black-cat familiar
