The comedian twins the Sklar Brothers have been making the stand-up rounds, producing TV shows and podcasts. Here’s what brother Randy has to say about what they’ve been up to and what’s next.
Fall is here, and so are a host of new shows going in new directions in Denver and Boulder. Be adventurous and try all five of these.
Please accept what follows as a considered statement, arrived at through observation and experience, and not as film-review hype or boilerplate: Kate Mulleavy and Laura Mulleavy’s Woodshock is the rare drug movie that, as you watch it, if you surrender to it, stirs the sensations of having taken drugs. I’m…
September marks the beginning of the new art season, with the long-running shows of summer finally closing and the first of the fall shows opening at Goodwin Fine Art and Walker Fine Art.
Since the election of Donald Trump—and in some cases long before that—several Denver theater directors have been increasingly concerned with political issues and are expressing those concerns in their casting and choice of material.
Often populated with voluptuaries, the films of Bertrand Bonello unerringly distill mood and milieu. In his heady, sinuous biopic Saint Laurent (2014), for example, Bonello ditched the traditional, usually tedious birth-to-death arc that most films in that genre follow to focus instead on the years 1967 to 1977, the great…
BoJack Horseman streams on Netflix It’s not a huge surprise that my sensitive and kind-hearted spouse could be left sobbing by an episode of a popular TV show. She’d say herself that she’s an easy mark, TV showrunners. But it’s definitely a surprise when any show even tries. TV writers…
Gerald’s Game premieres on Netflix on Sept. 29 One of the most hilarious things I’ve ever seen on television comes early in The Langoliers, a 1995 ABC miniseries adapted by Tom Holland from a Stephen King novella. It’s the one about a small group of travelers waking up on a…
Just a little more than three months ago, Tom Cruise starred in a lifeless wannabe-blockbuster called The Mummy that made little use of his innate charisma (shut up, he still has some) or his star persona, turning him into an anonymous action hero. Now comes American Made, a picture that…
The 21 best events in Denver for the week of September 26-October 2, 2017.
The Denver Center’s production of Macbeth gets points for originality and guts, but director Robert O’Hara needs to trust more in the words, the subtleties underlying them, and Shakespeare’s pulsating silences.
Let me set the record straight: Dolores Huerta created the rally cry “Si se puede,” otherwise known as “Yes we can.” If you’ve only ever seen the 2014 film Cesar Chavez — about the legendary farmworkers union president — or watched an Barack Obama campaign speech, you may have thought…
In Battle of the Sexes, Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris’ film rehashing the most infamous tennis match in modern history, Billie Jean King (Emma Stone) must brawl with the coed United States Tennis Association for equal pay as she comes to terms with her attraction to women and what might be…
Lording over the colonies is all bore and bother for the queen in Stephen Frears’ sumptuous yet centerless Victoria & Abdul. The film dramatizes Queen Victoria’s spirited friendship with Abdul Karim, a charming clerk from northern India who — in this telling — jolts the Empress of India from her…
Pure Barre is celebrating the opening of its fourteenth studio in Colorado with the unveiling of Pure Barre Belmar on Sunday, October 1.
A native New Yorker now living in Denver, Vincent Comparetto walks the planet at street level, but with a global view fired by a love for traveling. When he’s not doing that, Comparetto teaches, makes films and music videos, does motion graphics design work, photographs sights seen in places near and far and, as an artist with an elegant modernist design sense, stencils designs over collaged backgrounds in limited editions.
A new and wondrous week is dawning in Denver, and the local entertainment calendar is as lively as ever. With concerts, comedy shows and even a thrift-store-fashion runway, there’s a free event to suit every taste happening nearly every day this week.
As of today, summer’s gone. Fall’s here. Sure, there are golden aspen trees, apple picking, trick-or-treating, hay rides and eventually ski season to look forward to. But damnit, if we’re not missing the dog days of summer already.
When white supremacists and anti-racists clashed on the UVA campus in Charlottesville, Lydia Moyer, who teaches at the school, was out of town.
It’s easy to think that Denver actually condones graffiti because of the praise it poured on last weekend’s street-art-is-good-for-development CRUSH festival, in the once-graffitied, industrial neighborhood that’s now the RiNo Art District. But the city still has it in for spray-paint toting vandals.
The weekend is nigh, which can feel like either a blessing or a curse depending on the state of your pocketbook. So take heart, destitute Denverites, for Westword has scoured the local entertainment calendar for the best events in town that won’t break the bank.
Jacob Barreras is the ultimate projectionist who exercises his eye for new and the historical avant-garde film while plying his trade for the University of Colorado Film Studies Program, and Libi Striegl, a doctoral candidate in intermedia art, writing and performance at CU, bounces around between disciplines with special interests in robotics, software design to textiles and filmmaking.
