Again this year, Denver Film Festival artistic director Brit Withey is offering his must-see picks for each day of the fest — including many flicks that movie lovers might otherwise miss amid the flood of silver-screen goodies. Today, he spotlights his pick for Thursday, November 5: Rams. Rams Directed by Grímur Hákonarson…
It’s been a long time since Ash strapped a chainsaw onto the spot where his missing hand should be, slung a shotgun over his shoulder and went hard on some Deadites. Too goddamn long. As great as it was, Army of Darkness came out more than twenty years ago —…
Tom McCarthy’s Spotlight, opening November 6 in local theaters, details how the Boston Globe uncovered the Catholic Church’s child molestation scandal in 2002. The newspaper’s work won major awards, and the film is now being prepped for Oscar reception, getting talked up almost everywhere as a serious film. (But then, so was…
Hou Hsiao-hsien’s The Assassin is the Taiwanese director’s first foray into the martial-arts genre. It may also be his most resplendent film yet: Watching it is like floating along on a sumptuous gold-and-lacquer cloud. Hou favorite Shu Qi (who also starred in Millennium Mambo and Three Times) plays Nie Yinniang,…
Jafar Panahi looks happier than he has in a while — and he’s getting out. That’s encouraging, and it doesn’t mean that his latest act of defiance, the film Taxi, isn’t bold. Once again creating cinema in spite of Iran’s twenty-year edict forbidding him to do so, this most daring…
Political drama has long been shaped by what we can call the conversion narrative. In a play like One Third of a Nation, one of the Living Newspaper extravaganzas mounted with New Deal funding by the Federal Theatre Project, an everyman Joe you just gotta root for tries to live…
Colorado ski areas got pounded with as much as twenty inches of early-season snow in late October, just as we were going to press with the Edge, our annual guide to Colorado’s ski resorts — and Loveland was the first to announce an opening date — October 29. You can find…
The three solos currently on display at Robischon Gallery share a creepy yet elegant mood — like the feeling of walking through a decrepit mansion — and it strikes me that the atmosphere is a perfect fit for this time of year. Filling the initial set of galleries is Kahn…
This week an old Broadway favorite is returning to the Buell, while Denver’s Wonderbound rolls out a new work at the Mizel Center’s JAAMM Fest. And in celebration of Denver Arts Week, Chance to Dance invites the public to check out what’s coming out of dance studios around town. Disney’s…
Again this year, Denver Film Festival artistic director Brit Withey is offering his must-see picks for each day of the fest — including many flicks that movie lovers might otherwise miss amid the flood of silver-screen goodies. Today he spotlights the opening night feature, Anomalisa, and offers a preview of the…
The Oscar-winning screenwriter whose exploits are the subject of the upcoming biopic Trumbo, opening November 6 across the region, would be the first to snort at the thought of his life becoming Hollywood fodder. Then he would take the money and write the script himself. In recent years, Dalton Trumbo…
In its very first scene, Aziz Ansari’s new Netflix series, Master of None, presents something never before seen on TV: an Asian-American male romantic lead at the center of his own series. Granted, that scene is hardly sexy: A broken condom puts the brakes on a bar hook-up between Dev…
The Muppets doesn’t work, exactly, but I’m still watching. As a relative outsider to the 60-year Muppets franchise, I’ve long suspected that early imprinting is the key to loving Jim Henson’s gaudy, unblinking rags. I’ve never felt a particular need to watch pieces of felt tell Borscht Belt–style jokes, and…
Sophia Capua was four years old the first time she noticed the cartoonish graffiti monster characters drawn on a banner at the base of Loveland Ski Area. She also liked the sight of Pat Milbery, co-founder of the So-Gnar Snowboard Camp Tour, riding the rails with a giant monster mask…
In a city of flux, it seems that everyone in my life is moving right now. And one of the main tenets of both being a good friend and being a person who owns stuff is that you need to accumulate and dole out “moving karma” – in other words,…
#5: Dede LaRue Sometime in the ‘80s, spray-painted pink flamingos began appearing on the sides of dumpsters and rollaways around Denver, long before the city even imagined it had a graffiti problem. They were left there by Dede LaRue, an artist/troublemaker with a delightful sense of humor. She’s best-known now…
Emily K. Harrison, artistic director of Square Product Theatre, has always preferred presenting work that’s either original or hasn’t been seen in this area before, but she taught Paula Vogel’s Pulitzer Prize-winning How I Learned to Drive at the University of Colorado and feels a strong connection to this complex,…
Most of us would rather be clocked in the head with a brick than look at another historical monument. Most of those memorials commemorate boring chapters in history or honor pioneer founders who made a pile, then raised a pile to themselves for a little posthumous backslapping. But far from the…
Yes, it’s 3-D computer animation, and yes, it shows us more of the face of Charlie Brown’s Little Red-Haired Girl than you ever thought you would see. But the news, for the most part, is good: The Peanuts Movie is much closer in spirit to Charles Schulz’s half-century comic-strip masterpiece…
Because women are particularly beguiling when viewed from behind, the camera loves to follow them: Anyone who’s watched James Stewart’s lovesick detective trailing Kim Novak, a platinum dream poured into a pale-gray flannel hourglass, understands the voyeurism at the heart of Vertigo. With Spectre — the 24th James Bond picture…
Today is officially El Dia de los Muertos, but families observed the Mexican tradition yesterday at Olinger Crown Hill Cemetery, where altars to the departed, face painting and live entertainment were all part of the event, captured in these photos by Ken Hamblin III. Now see the full Olinger Crown Hill…
A Pandora’s Box of characters from the darker side of fairy tales were let loose at Tracks over the Halloween weekend, where special guests included Nina Flowers, Trixie Mattel and Manila Luzon of RuPaul’s Drag Race. Were you there? Find yourself in these photos by Aaron Thackeray. Now see the…
