The masses aren’t exactly clamoring for more experimental films. Not only is there exactly zero market for avant-garde film-making in the mainstream, but there aren’t even too many underground screenings of them, and even fewer people devote their careers to making them. Even so, says John Hartman, director of Indie…
Emilio Lobato and Sangeeta Reddy. Mixed-media artist and painter Emilio Lobato is surely near the top of anyone’s list of abstract artists in the region. His work relates well to that of the late Dale Chisman, as both artists studied with Mary Chenoweth at Colorado College. His latest creations, many…
Laws governing the keeping of exotic animals as pets vary from state to state in this country — and some states have no restrictions whatsoever, which means there’s a vibrant subculture of raising some of the most dangerous animals in the world as common household pets. That’s the premise behind…
The era of the teenage action heroine is fully upon us. As pop-cultural correctives go, it’s a mixed blessing. In one corner, you’ve got the jailbait fantasies of Donkey Punch and Kick Ass, which eagerly trade on notions of naughty girliness rather than transcend or interrogate them. In the other,…
Your Highness plays like a dirty-joke blooper reel made by the cast of a junky sword-and-sorcery epic, streaked with carelessly contemporary-sounding blue humor, blunt profanity replacing the naughty-naughty, tankard-sloshing, heaving-bosom ribaldry that goes with the period setting. The scene: a generic medieval realm from an EverQuest or Forgotten Realms module…
There are a lot of short films playing at the Aspen ShortsFest tonight and over the course of the next five days — like, a shitload of them. And since many of them are foreign and all of them, pretty much by definition because they are short films, are somewhat…
It’s hard out there for a pimp. Or at least a warlock like Charlie Sheen. When it was announced that CBS had begun looking for actors to replace his role on Two and a Half Men, the cogs started turning and the rumor mill spit out one replacement after another…
For proof that a lifelong obsession with trivia will win you literally tens of dollars and a modest measure of short-lived semi-fame, look no further than Jeopardy! tomorrow night, when Geeks Who Drink editor Christopher Short will throw down in representation of Denver’s community of nerds with an impressive ability…
After watching the Jersey Shore crew drink and fight and tan together just like a real family, they moved out of the house last week in a rather deflated thirteenth and final episode of the show’s third season. Though the group is still supposed to go to Italy for another…
In years past, putting together a Best of Denver issue was like Sophie’s Choice: In order to choose the favorite baby, all the rest of the babies had to die and then Meryl Streep killed herself. Now we have the vast internets and enough space to choose whatever we desire…
Emilio Lobato and Sangeeta Reddy. Mixed-media artist and painter Emilio Lobato is surely near the top of anyone’s list of abstract artists in the region. His work relates well to that of the late Dale Chisman, as both artists studied with Mary Chenoweth at Colorado College. His latest creations, many…
Based on a typically heart-wrenching case study by Oliver Sacks, the admirably modest adaptation The Music Never Stopped tells the story of Gabriel Sawyer (Lou Taylor Pucci), a homeless hippie whose burnout isn’t the product of drug abuse, but a ballooning benign tumor that’s erased his memory. Institutionalized in the…
The releases of Beastly and Red Riding Hood mark just two more additions to a time-honored film tradition: hackneyed, shitty movies based on fairy tales. Inspired by these cloying new releases, we decided to take a look back at five more insipid films that were vaguely based on magical children’s…
Watching a documentary can often be like eating your peas: It’s not exactly thrilling, but it is nourishing, and when it’s over, you kind of feel like you accomplished something. In that vein, the Denver Botanic Gardens’ monthly Indigenous Film Series kicks off tonight with two documentaries from Native American…
The excruciating wait for trendy, affordable goods from major Swedish retailers will come to an end this year when both H&M and IKEA finally come to Denver pretty much simultaneously — meaning you will soon be feasibly able to clothe, surround and even feed yourself with all things trendy and…
A low-life comedy in registers of Norse pallor and reticence, A Somewhat Gentle Man begins with ex-thug Ulrik (Stellan Skarsgård) paroled from a twelve-year sentence for murder. Returning to the seedy milieu he left behind on the outskirts of an unnamed city, Ulrik is a watchful, shy presence in every…
This week’s big movie can be found on TV. Arch-independent filmmaker Todd Haynes makes a characteristically sidelong move toward the mainstream with his five-part miniseries Mildred Pierce, which starts this Sunday on HBO. Haynes, the most academic yet mass-culture-minded of U.S. indie directors, began his career in the late Reagan…
Oh gee, really? Do we have to open episode twelve by continuing the Sammi and Ronnie blowout from last week? At this point, the relationship toxicity isn’t even remotely entertaining–in fact, we kind of wish it would all implode on itself again and make them both disappear. But instead, we’ll…
A couple weeks ago, we told you about Hulu’s bracket to determine the best show on television. On opening day of the actual March Madness, the contest is down to eight and the results are a little surprising: Not exactly populist, not exactly critical consensus. We originally thought this was…
The Catch-22 of UFO naysaying is that UFOs are the products of highly sophisticated races, built expressly so that bumbling simpletons like you and I see a commercial airline or a speck of dust on a camera. Fortunately, YouTube user magnetflipper isn’t fooled. He or she has been filming aliens…
Emilio Lobato and Sangeeta Reddy. Mixed-media artist and painter Emilio Lobato is surely near the top of anyone’s list of abstract artists in the region. His work relates well to that of the late Dale Chisman, as both artists studied with Mary Chenoweth at Colorado College. His latest creations, many…
The romanticized commitment phobia that keeps Judd Apatow in gilt-fixtured man caves is brought down to earth (or Park Slope, anyway) in this inventive indie thriller from Murderball co-director Dana Adam Shapiro. Monogamy follows thirty-something Brooklynite Theo (Chris Messina) as he simultaneously slogs through his day job as a wedding…
