Last weekend, more than fifty teams of local filmmakers wrote, shot and edited entire film in 48 hours. Oh, and in case that wasn’t enough of a challenge, the film they made had to be in a genre selected at random, and incorporate a line of dialogue and prop that…
There’s a lot of weird shit captured for posterity on videotape. Nick Prueher and Joe Pickett have been collecting it for 21 years, and touring the world sharing it under the name Found Footage Festival for the past eight. During that time, they’ve become de facto VHS historians, amassing an…
A weekend can go by fast, but sometimes you can accomplish a lot. Just ask the fifty-plus teams who each wrote, shot and edited an entire film in that time. Then watch the fruits of their labor today at the 48 Hour Film Project Premiere Screenings. “It’s such an incredible…
At some point during the Found Footage Festival’s latest show — maybe when the masturbation how-to segment comes on — you’re going to ask yourself how the hell all this weird stuff came to exist. “I think it was kind of a gold rush,” explains Nick Prueher, who co-founded the…
In mid-August, the most ambitious mission to Mars thus far landed on the red planet. The Curiosity Rover is on a two-year mission to look for signs of life, study its climate and geology, and collect data that might help future manned missions. To get in the spirit, we’ve combed…
Fear not, geeks (and geek-curious): The Geek Pavilion at the second annual Denver County Fair, which runs from Friday, August 10 through Sunday, August 12 at the National Western Complex, is in excellent hands. That’s because Dana Cain, the Denver County Fair’s director, is passionate about nerd life. “The Geek…
Ukulele Loki knows a thing or two about what makes a freakshow a freakshow. He’s been active in the circus and sideshow arts (yes, that is a thing) for years, honing his craft as a “talented talker” (or what the squares might call a barker, a term he rejects as…
This Sunday, the most ambitious mission to Mars thus far will land on the red planet. The Curiosity Rover is on a two-year mission to look for signs of life, study its climate and geology and collect data that might help future manned missions. The Denver Museum of Nature and…
Mars has fascinated humanity since our earliest ancestors first turned their eyes to the sky, and tonight, NASA’s latest and greatest probe touches down on the surface of the red planet. Observe this milestone tonight at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science’s Curiosity Landing Event, where space scientists and…
Australian exploitation — or Ozploitation — films don’t come much more obscure than Road Games, the story of a trucker named Quid (Stacy Keach) who stalks a possible serial killer across the Australian highways while trying to deliver a load of meat to market. A pushy hitchhiker/sidekick played by ’80s…
It’s hard to be a Harry Potter fan these days. You probably finished the final book in the series years ago, while the last movie is long gone from the multiplexes — and J.K. Rowling insists there is no more to come. But that doesn’t mean you can’t still indulge…
Maybe you finally finished a NaNoWriMo project, and now you’re not sure what to do with the manuscript. Perhaps you’ve been hard at work at the Great American Zombie Novel, but you can’t get the characters to gel. Or hell, possibly you’re convinced you could write some ladyporn that would…
Pop culture is important. We spend our time and money on it, litter our speech with quotes from it, and our lives are shaped by it. That’s the premise of These Things Matter, a new podcast created by local comedian Kevin O’Brien and Taylor Gonda. Of course, for all the…
If you’re intrigued by the unearthly, the inexplicable and the just plain weird, then you’ll find friends at the 2012 UFO Conference at the UFO Watchtower near the town of Hooper. For two days, enthusiasts of esoteric research will gather to hear speakers tackle topics ranging from Sasquatch sightings to…
Take one bad action movie, add a pair of smart-ass movie geeks riffing on it in real time, and you have the high-concept, low-brow comedic brilliance of Mile High Sci-Fi. This month the MHSF crew tackles the little-loved Arnold Schwarzenegger gem Raw Deal, a convoluted tale of Mafia dons, corruption…
If there’s one thing that pop culture has taught us, it’s that robots fight. From Terminator to Transformers, robots are duking it out everywhere. But maybe it doesn’t have to be that way. Maybe some robots just want to dance…
Star Trek: The Next Generation fans will get a special treat tonight, when National CineMedia brings two episodes of the classic series (complete with newly polished special effects) to the big screen, including the United Artists Denver Pavilions 15. That’s the good news. The less good news is the episodes…
For Real Steel, the final installment in the Aspen Grove free family film series, the Alamo Drafthouse decided to get as close as possible to bringing the movie to life. “As far as the Alamo is concerned, we try to incorporate themes into our pre-shows and really enhance the movie…
The 2012 Olympic Games kick off in London next week, but you can participate in games of a different kind today at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. In the Geek Olympics, teams compete in a variety of Olympics-inspired challenges around the museum for the chance to win prizes…
For four seasons, Breaking Bad has chronicled the journey of Walter White from “Mr Chips to Scarface,” as creator Vince Gilligan puts it. The end of the last season saw White taking out his number one adversary in spectacular fashion, marking the beginning of the final phase of his transformation…
This Saturday, when the Run For Your Lives 5K race comes to Denver, the fast and wary will survive. The rest will be zombie fodder. That’s right — at long last, someone has combined a 5K obstacle-course race with the walking dead. Or in this case, the running dead. Sure,…
Zombies are everywhere. The undead scourge has invaded movies, television, video games, even classic literature, and there’s no end in sight. Now they’ve even popped up in your fitness regimen, with the Run for Your Lives 5K obstacle-course race. Only the strong will survive, but everyone should have a pretty…
